Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

15 reviews

laurajeangrace's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Sexism, and Misogyny

Minor: Drug use, Slavery, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

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

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

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

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

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

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 use, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gore, and Gun violence

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

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

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

Minor: Animal death