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

18 reviews

epeolatrist's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Medical content

Moderate: Gun violence, Addiction, and Violence

Minor: Slavery

itsnotalakeitsanocean's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful tense 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

I don't think I was entirely in the mood for this book when I read it but I still found it enjoyable. I admittedly ended up skimming a lot of it partially because of the medical content, but also because I

I'm really glad this is a book that challenges the "Not Like Other Girls" attitude without forcing Felicity to become more feminine than she is comfortable with, instead simply learning to understand girls can be intelligent and feminine and learning to support her more feminine friends. 

I'm also really happy for Felicity being aroace rep, struggling with society's expectations for her to marry and bear children, but not being forced into a relationship at the end of the book.

That said I hope Sim gets to come back in future installments with a girlfriend of her own. I won't deny she and Felicity had some chemistry, but I'm glad that no side resented the other after discovering their orientations were incompatible and they were still able to be friends. I think that takes skill to pull off and the author landed it well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexism, Misogyny, and Medical content

Moderate: Gun violence, Addiction, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Slavery, Animal death, and Acephobia/Arophobia

evelynyle_88's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, and Medical content

Moderate: Violence, Addiction, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death, Slavery, and Death of parent

cataglyphis's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual assault, Blood, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Addiction, Drug use, and Racism

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia and Slavery

leonormsousa's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Medical content, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Racism, Trafficking, Violence, Gun violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Stalking, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Religious bigotry

psliz's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

loved the feminism, the deus ex machina and magical realism at the end? not so much

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Kidnapping, Medical content, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Gore, Acephobia/Arophobia, Drug abuse, Animal death, and Racism

Minor: Homophobia, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Slavery, Blood, and Death of parent

water_violin's review

adventurous challenging funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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: Violence, Medical content, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Addiction, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug use, Racism, Death of parent, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Vomit, and Religious bigotry

infinitefandomstrash's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

5.0

"In the company of women like this—sharp-edged as raw as diamonds but with soft hands and hearts, not strong inspite of anything but powerful because of everything—I feel invincible."

I loved it, your honor <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Colonisation, Gun violence, Addiction, and Adult/minor relationship

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

livruther's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

As far as I’m concerned, Mackenzi Lee can do no wrong. I really enjoyed this book. Tbh, my least favorite thing was the plot. Like the dragon thing was so weird??? But I loved the setting, the writing, and the characters. Felicity is such an interesting protagonist and obviously I LOVE monty & percy more than life itself. They are so sweet and the way that they both put their struggling careers on hold just to come find Felicity was the sweetest thing ever. Besides the dragons, there were some other things that bothered me. 

1) Felicity’s characterization doesn’t quite match “Getting Lucky” bc in that, she is not at all homophobic, and she very explicitly speaks about sex with Monty, but she seems uncomfortable with the idea of sex in this. 
2) She mentions being homophobic bc of the Bible, but she doesn’t mention all the sexism in the Bible. I felt like she should have mentioned that. 
3) Felicity honestly didn’t seem as upset as I felt like she should be when she found out that her hero was a POS. He was basically her whole life’s inspiration and she was just like, a little bit mad that he actually sucked.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Addiction, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Drug use, Gore, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

Much like the first book, it was enjoyable but not super memorable. I really liked some parts like when Johanna (Joanna?) called out Felicity about Felicity judging her intelligence by how she presents herself and acting superior because she doesn't like being hyper femme. I also liked how Felicity was on the asexual spectrum (with some attraction to women I think). Loved the smart girls kicking butt, adventuring, and just doing the damn thing but it wasn't anything stand out for me. I sort of glazed over/tuned out in some parts of the audiobook as it didn't hold my interest consistently like other books I've listened to.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Racism, Classism, Colonisation, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, and Animal cruelty