Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

18 reviews

onefineelephant's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

 9/10. I loved this book. I wasn't aware that Monty and Percy would make an appearance in this one, but I'm glad they did. The exploration of asexuality/aromanticism was really awesome and well done (but I'm not asexual or aromantic so don't just take my word on it). I also really enjoyed the exploration and tensions of female friendship. And I loved how Felicity had to grapple with the notion of feminine + strong women instead of one or the other. Both Johanna and Sim were such fresh characters, I enjoyed them both a lot. Highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

elliizzzabeth's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Enjoyable second installment in the Montague siblings series. I don't think it was quite as good as the first book but that may be because I found Monty a lot more loveable than Felicity. She is so painfully "not like the other girls" and the first half of the book beats you over the head with the fact that she is a woman and so the men ignore her. Once the story got going, it was just as exciting and fun as the first. I also liked the discussions of Felicity's (what I assume is) asexuality. Looking forward to the 3rd installment :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Misogyny and Blood

Minor: Drug use

Obviously Felicity wants to become a doctor and so there is a lot of discussions of medical procedures as well as her tending to some serious injuries which often involve a lot of blood.

violet_pages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Colonisation

Minor: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Slavery, and Death of parent

jupitermond's review

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Medical content

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Homophobia, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Slavery

hayleyvem's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gore, and Gun violence

Minor: Homophobia, Slavery, Death of parent, and Alcohol

adelal's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This was amazing and I’m so mad sea monsters are not real and I can’t pet one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use

Minor: Chronic illness, Slavery, and Kidnapping

hmatt's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This one lost me midway though. The change in tone

, basically at the point where they leave Zurich on,

made it feel like 2 separate books to me. And, while I appreciate the ~strong female lead/ace rep/all of that, of course I do, most of it seemed very heavy-handed and clunk-ily stuffed into the narrative via long internal monologues from the main character. 

Perhaps this is another case of me not loving YA as a genre but continuing to read it because it is both more lighthearted and includes a wider variety of queer narratives than the other genres I like...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death

briely's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative inspiring slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism