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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
Monty and Percy now occupy a special place in my heart. Monty is such golden retriever who’s obsessed with his lad. Felicity was working triple time keeping these boys safe I can’t wait to read her adventure.
The moment the audiobook started I sort of hated Monty. There was something in the way he passed words around that I distrusted. I have little respect for people who just throw their lives away with alcohol and whoring, especially when you have a someone you are madly in love with and I was able to tell from the first chapters that Percy returned the feelings.
Percy I loved from the very beginning. A sweet lad, with a strong desire to do what is right, to see the world and learn as much as possible. Yet held down by the color of his skin.
Felicity is for me the main character of this story. The author shows through this girl the small amount of rights women had, their struggle to enter fields men dominated simply because they believed women had to place among them.
Mackenzi Lee's writing style is very fluid, simple to follow and you don't realize when the pages are being turned. Still, I was promised a trip around Europe with a boy who is in love with his best friend and his sister who wants a proper education. I got an alchemical trip in Spain and Italy that was a bit of a disappointment. I was expecting this story to be a bit realistic, instead I got a hint of fantasy in it. And there are a few plot holes and answers that I want to be filled and answered. Hopefully in the second book.
The ending felt rushed, out of place. I was completely and utterly disappointed with it.
Overall, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is a fun trip, but ruins it as soon as the fantastical element enters play.
Percy I loved from the very beginning. A sweet lad, with a strong desire to do what is right, to see the world and learn as much as possible. Yet held down by the color of his skin.
Felicity is for me the main character of this story. The author shows through this girl the small amount of rights women had, their struggle to enter fields men dominated simply because they believed women had to place among them.
Mackenzi Lee's writing style is very fluid, simple to follow and you don't realize when the pages are being turned. Still, I was promised a trip around Europe with a boy who is in love with his best friend and his sister who wants a proper education. I got an alchemical trip in Spain and Italy that was a bit of a disappointment. I was expecting this story to be a bit realistic, instead I got a hint of fantasy in it. And there are a few plot holes and answers that I want to be filled and answered. Hopefully in the second book.
The ending felt rushed, out of place. I was completely and utterly disappointed with it.
Overall, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is a fun trip, but ruins it as soon as the fantastical element enters play.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
slow-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
If I could I would rate this book a 4.5.
The characters were fun and interesting. The romance was AMAZING. The adventure was for the most part engaging. Overall, a really fun book to read, especially for fans of LGBT romance.
The characters were fun and interesting. The romance was AMAZING. The adventure was for the most part engaging. Overall, a really fun book to read, especially for fans of LGBT romance.
This adventure aspect of this book was so delightful and unexpected. A great read with a lot of engaging banter and personality.
SO MUCH LOVE FOR THIS. You go kick some ass in med school, Felicity. 😍
Full video review here: https://youtu.be/tPIDMtu22yE
Full video review here: https://youtu.be/tPIDMtu22yE
“Because I want you to know,” she says, “that there is life after survival.”
The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for its single-sidedness. It is also not an epic monolith that has plagued me since boyhood, as might be expected. Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one morning, quite without meaning to, one of them wakes to find that importance has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue in the other’s mouth.
I'm at a loss for words, I won't even try and find them, none could possibly do it justice. It's just incredibly good, and the writing was strikingly visual, “As he turns it, there’s a series of clicks, like a stick’s being dragged up a stack of vertebrae.”, gripping and breathtaking.
So many excellent characters, complex and flawed, (except for Percy, whose positively perfect). Felicity, smart as a whip, quick mouthed, and brave. Percy, the kindest soul, whose only "faults" were things so out of his control and that weren't faults at all. It was amazing how gentle, understanding, and forgiving he remained after all he had gone thorugh. And Monty, he made me laugh out loud, and managed to wrung my heart out when he said words like these: “Because Percy goes so deep inside me, like veins of gold grown into granite”, but also when the thin facade of arrongance fell, and a vulnerable, unsure, boy who couldn't quite belief himself worthy of love prevailed.
It is a beautiful book and I'll cherish it forever.
We are not broken things…We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.
ps: It's kind of spoilery but Scipio is a sweetheart, and I love him for genuinely caring about Monty.
pps: My My My by Troye Sivan just happens to be the perfect song for Percy & Monty :D
The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for its single-sidedness. It is also not an epic monolith that has plagued me since boyhood, as might be expected. Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one morning, quite without meaning to, one of them wakes to find that importance has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue in the other’s mouth.
I'm at a loss for words, I won't even try and find them, none could possibly do it justice. It's just incredibly good, and the writing was strikingly visual, “As he turns it, there’s a series of clicks, like a stick’s being dragged up a stack of vertebrae.”, gripping and breathtaking.
So many excellent characters, complex and flawed, (except for Percy, whose positively perfect). Felicity, smart as a whip, quick mouthed, and brave. Percy, the kindest soul, whose only "faults" were things so out of his control and that weren't faults at all. It was amazing how gentle, understanding, and forgiving he remained after all he had gone thorugh. And Monty, he made me laugh out loud, and managed to wrung my heart out when he said words like these: “Because Percy goes so deep inside me, like veins of gold grown into granite”, but also when the thin facade of arrongance fell, and a vulnerable, unsure, boy who couldn't quite belief himself worthy of love prevailed.
It is a beautiful book and I'll cherish it forever.
We are not broken things…We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.
ps: It's kind of spoilery but Scipio is a sweetheart, and I love him for genuinely caring about Monty.
pps: My My My by Troye Sivan just happens to be the perfect song for Percy & Monty :D
Lo sospechaba desde la página 50 y he mantenido esta idea durante el resto del libro: De cabeza a favoritos. Yo venía a esta lectura por los jajas y me he encontrado con un drama salpicado de humor que cuando menos me lo esperaba me daba una bofetada en la cara.
Brillantes los personajes, brillante la trama y brillante la escritura. Creo que es una de las cosas que más me ha gustado de todo el libro, el cómo está escrito. Qué bello y qué ligero al mismo tiempo, qué inspirador como escritora.
Me encandiló la narración pero luego llegó Henry Montague y os juro que nunca he sentido tantísimas ganas de abrazar y dar una colleja a un personaje al mismo tiempo. Me flipan los protagonistas imbéciles, pero es que Monty es de los más frustrantes y enriquecedores que he leído en mucho tiempo, y lo más bonito es que no lleva todo el peso de la historia él solo, es que cuidado con Percy y Felicity, que están tan bien construidos y transmiten tanto y tan bien que dan ganas de abrazar el puñetero libro como confieso que he hecho en alguna ocasión (también le he dado golpes contra el sofá, no os voy a mentir).
Qué gusto leer libros con esta calidad en todos los sentidos.
Brillantes los personajes, brillante la trama y brillante la escritura. Creo que es una de las cosas que más me ha gustado de todo el libro, el cómo está escrito. Qué bello y qué ligero al mismo tiempo, qué inspirador como escritora.
Me encandiló la narración pero luego llegó Henry Montague y os juro que nunca he sentido tantísimas ganas de abrazar y dar una colleja a un personaje al mismo tiempo. Me flipan los protagonistas imbéciles, pero es que Monty es de los más frustrantes y enriquecedores que he leído en mucho tiempo, y lo más bonito es que no lleva todo el peso de la historia él solo, es que cuidado con Percy y Felicity, que están tan bien construidos y transmiten tanto y tan bien que dan ganas de abrazar el puñetero libro como confieso que he hecho en alguna ocasión (también le he dado golpes contra el sofá, no os voy a mentir).
Qué gusto leer libros con esta calidad en todos los sentidos.
adventurous
funny
fast-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