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chelsbethbaute's review against another edition
1.0
Quite possibly the stupidest book I have ever read. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
fictionalkate's review
4.0
Spending the summer in Sweden would be a lot of people’s idea of a dream vacation. But not for Kat. After she is caught in a compromising position her parents decide the best punishment is to send her to stay with her auntie for a few months. And to make things worse, not only is Kat being exiled from England but she will be spending the summer on an island in the middle of nowhere without the luxuries of home. No phone reception, internet or electricity in her new island home Kat is forced to get back to nature and see who she really is beneath the manicured surface.
Sunkissed is one of those perfect holiday reads which makes you want to be there with the characters under summer sun. Kat is very much a girly girl who indulges her love of fashion and makeup. When she is removed from all that is familiar to spend some time with her part-time nudist jewellery designing aunt in a cabin with no outlet for her hair-straightener, Kat has to look beneath the surface. Not only of those around her but also herself to work out who she is when she’s not surrounded by her friends and family.
I’ve really enjoyed the books from Jenny McLachlan’s Ladybird series and Sunkissed is no exception. These books are clean reads yet still contain lovely romance and tackle issues which many readers may be dealing with. Kat feels like an outsider within her own family and it’s only by finding herself does she find her place within her family. There are cameos from other characters from the Ladybird series and a lovely romance complete with misunderstandings and drama for Kat to deal with. Kat grows over the course of the novel and whilst at first she may seem shallow, she is revealed to have some hidden depths. Her relationship with Leo is fun to read but for me the friendship side of this story was much more enjoyable than the romance.
Sunkissed is a great addition to the Ladybirds series. If you are looking for an entertaining series for young teen girls – look no further than these books by Jenny McLachlan. Clean stories about relationships with more depth than you might expect.
Sunkissed in ten words or less: Fun flirty summer read with some surprises along the way.
Sunkissed is one of those perfect holiday reads which makes you want to be there with the characters under summer sun. Kat is very much a girly girl who indulges her love of fashion and makeup. When she is removed from all that is familiar to spend some time with her part-time nudist jewellery designing aunt in a cabin with no outlet for her hair-straightener, Kat has to look beneath the surface. Not only of those around her but also herself to work out who she is when she’s not surrounded by her friends and family.
I’ve really enjoyed the books from Jenny McLachlan’s Ladybird series and Sunkissed is no exception. These books are clean reads yet still contain lovely romance and tackle issues which many readers may be dealing with. Kat feels like an outsider within her own family and it’s only by finding herself does she find her place within her family. There are cameos from other characters from the Ladybird series and a lovely romance complete with misunderstandings and drama for Kat to deal with. Kat grows over the course of the novel and whilst at first she may seem shallow, she is revealed to have some hidden depths. Her relationship with Leo is fun to read but for me the friendship side of this story was much more enjoyable than the romance.
Sunkissed is a great addition to the Ladybirds series. If you are looking for an entertaining series for young teen girls – look no further than these books by Jenny McLachlan. Clean stories about relationships with more depth than you might expect.
Sunkissed in ten words or less: Fun flirty summer read with some surprises along the way.
cebaute's review against another edition
1.0
Quite possibly the stupidest book I have ever read. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
charlottexclarkson's review
5.0
I wasn't expecting much from this book but I was happily surprised. It was a lovely tale about holiday romance but mostly about the importance of friendship - something I haven't seen written well about in a long time.
molly28's review
4.0
Best book in this series. I appreciated that the whole book wasn't based on just the romance. She found herself and I thought that was beautiful and quite unexpected for a teenage summer romance.
thegraduatedbookwormblogger's review against another edition
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I'm pretty sure I did a book swap with one of my fellow book bloggers which is why I received this book as an ARC. I also wasn't sure if I needed to read the other two books in the series before this to begin reading, but I decided to read it anyway!
This was definitely a cute story for the summer time, although I can't say I really loved it. I felt like there wasn't much happening with the story, and everything just seemed like it was rushed.
I felt like for most of the book, Kat was just a whiny girl who couldn't believe her parents shipped her off to live with her "crazy" Aunt, but of course, bring in a boy and things begin to change.
Overall, it was a quirky book that definitely was a quick read. There were some good moments, but I felt like maybe you had to read book one in order to get a bit more of an understanding before diving into the second one. Even though they're standalones, I think it would've helped.
I'm pretty sure I did a book swap with one of my fellow book bloggers which is why I received this book as an ARC. I also wasn't sure if I needed to read the other two books in the series before this to begin reading, but I decided to read it anyway!
This was definitely a cute story for the summer time, although I can't say I really loved it. I felt like there wasn't much happening with the story, and everything just seemed like it was rushed.
I felt like for most of the book, Kat was just a whiny girl who couldn't believe her parents shipped her off to live with her "crazy" Aunt, but of course, bring in a boy and things begin to change.
Overall, it was a quirky book that definitely was a quick read. There were some good moments, but I felt like maybe you had to read book one in order to get a bit more of an understanding before diving into the second one. Even though they're standalones, I think it would've helped.
leah_reads's review
4.0
Ahhh man I love The Ladybirds. We've met Bea, Betty and now Kat and I cannot wait to meet Pearl too. This book arrived at the perfect time. When I first started reading I thought uh-oh, Kat doesn't seem like my kind of gal. That quickly changed as I got to know her better. Sunkissed is packed full of of laugh out loud, feel-good moments and I devoured it. Kat is hysterical and I loved watching her transformation throughout the novel.
Jenny McLachlan writes teenagers SO well. Reading through these books reminds me of my teen years; how the smallest things can make such a huge difference, how having NO signal on your phone means game over, how important your friends are and how being sent off to a glorious island in Sweden can seem like an absolute nightmare. I loved it. I loved seeing the friendships develop on this little island and I find myself with a huge urge to go and visit Sweden right now!
Sunkissed is the perfect summer read. It's guaranteed to give you many laughs and leave you with the warm fuzzies. I can't wait for Pearl's story next year!
Jenny McLachlan writes teenagers SO well. Reading through these books reminds me of my teen years; how the smallest things can make such a huge difference, how having NO signal on your phone means game over, how important your friends are and how being sent off to a glorious island in Sweden can seem like an absolute nightmare. I loved it. I loved seeing the friendships develop on this little island and I find myself with a huge urge to go and visit Sweden right now!
Sunkissed is the perfect summer read. It's guaranteed to give you many laughs and leave you with the warm fuzzies. I can't wait for Pearl's story next year!
liralen's review against another edition
3.0
Cute. Kat's a little exhausting sometimes, but I was really happy to find a bit of YA fiction taking place in Sweden...I think the only other book I've found in that vein is [b:Swede Dreams|705303|Swede Dreams |Eva Apelqvist|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348689454s/705303.jpg|691587] (and I cannot tell you how much I wish that particular series had kept going on and on and on).
Kat spends pretty much her entire time in Sweden on an island, but she manages to have quite a few experiences that seem Sweden-specific, which is nice. I suppose her being away from the city spares us much of the shopping and obsessing over her appearance that it sounds like we would have gotten otherwise. I just wish she'd spoken more Swedish...that is, she's described as having decent Swedish, but then the Swedish characters her age are forever apologising and switching into English. I suppose it's because the author (presumably) doesn't speak Swedish, but it's kind of a shame nonetheless.
I don't like the way the situation with Peeta is treated (yet another The Other Girl Is Evil situation, with a small bone thrown to her at the end), but Pearl is pretty great. I get the sense that she's been the Not Nice One in the other books in the series (which I see no particular reason to read), but she's easily the most complex (and often, surprisingly, sympathetic) character of Sunkissed.
Kat spends pretty much her entire time in Sweden on an island, but she manages to have quite a few experiences that seem Sweden-specific, which is nice. I suppose her being away from the city spares us much of the shopping and obsessing over her appearance that it sounds like we would have gotten otherwise. I just wish she'd spoken more Swedish...that is, she's described as having decent Swedish, but then the Swedish characters her age are forever apologising and switching into English. I suppose it's because the author (presumably) doesn't speak Swedish, but it's kind of a shame nonetheless.
I don't like the way the situation with Peeta is treated (yet another The Other Girl Is Evil situation, with a small bone thrown to her at the end), but Pearl is pretty great. I get the sense that she's been the Not Nice One in the other books in the series (which I see no particular reason to read), but she's easily the most complex (and often, surprisingly, sympathetic) character of Sunkissed.
jenno's review
2.0
This summer I'm abroad (I'm Swedish) and we got this book in the book shop where I work. Feeling a bit homesick, reading at the back that Kat (our main character) gets banished to Sweden for the summer. "The land of saunas, nudity" oh my! I thought this could be a fun read.
I didn't realize that this was in a series but it didn't really matter.
I read this literally in two hours. That's not saying that I enjoyed it that much but the font is huge and the story is predictable.
Vane girl gets sent to Sweden for behaving badly. She gets to an island in the archipelago outside of Stockholm to stay with her aunt. She hates it. She can't even get a signal on her phone. How will she survive?
Enter boy. They fall for each other but of course there are problems.
Kat needs to show that she's not "blåst" (an airhead) by getting fit and compete in a race around the island.
Have you guessed how this will end yet?
I wanted this to be cute, a light read that would make me, for a moment, be in the Swedish summer.
It had all the Swedish elements but I wasn't really drawn in by the story. Also it's only cute in the last like two pages.
The cover also has a quote from the Sunday Times saying it's hilarious.
Trust me, it isn't.
A thing that bothered me the most, which is because I'm Swedish, is the mistakes in Swedish this book has. Some words and sentences are written in Swedish, being set in Sweden and Kat being half Swedish BUT THEY ARE WRONG!
I marked all the wrongs with exclamation marks, writing how it should be in the margins. It really annoyed me.
Not all them are wrong, but many of them. As someone who doesn't speak Swedish you wouldn't noticed, I guess. But it would have been pretty easy to fix, before the book was published.
This might look like an angry review, and it isn't. I just thought that this book didn't deliver on what the back of it made me think. And what the cover suggests.
I know that I'm way older then the target group of this, but still I'm just disappointed in this.
I didn't realize that this was in a series but it didn't really matter.
I read this literally in two hours. That's not saying that I enjoyed it that much but the font is huge and the story is predictable.
Vane girl gets sent to Sweden for behaving badly. She gets to an island in the archipelago outside of Stockholm to stay with her aunt. She hates it. She can't even get a signal on her phone. How will she survive?
Enter boy. They fall for each other but of course there are problems.
Kat needs to show that she's not "blåst" (an airhead) by getting fit and compete in a race around the island.
Have you guessed how this will end yet?
I wanted this to be cute, a light read that would make me, for a moment, be in the Swedish summer.
It had all the Swedish elements but I wasn't really drawn in by the story. Also it's only cute in the last like two pages.
The cover also has a quote from the Sunday Times saying it's hilarious.
Trust me, it isn't.
A thing that bothered me the most, which is because I'm Swedish, is the mistakes in Swedish this book has. Some words and sentences are written in Swedish, being set in Sweden and Kat being half Swedish BUT THEY ARE WRONG!
I marked all the wrongs with exclamation marks, writing how it should be in the margins. It really annoyed me.
Not all them are wrong, but many of them. As someone who doesn't speak Swedish you wouldn't noticed, I guess. But it would have been pretty easy to fix, before the book was published.
This might look like an angry review, and it isn't. I just thought that this book didn't deliver on what the back of it made me think. And what the cover suggests.
I know that I'm way older then the target group of this, but still I'm just disappointed in this.