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elysehdez19's review against another edition
3.0
Puedes leer mi reseña completa aquí: http://elibrerodeelyse1903.blogspot.com/2019/06/resena-la-guia-de-la-dama-para-las.html
chris_tina_87's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-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
4.0
clara_h39's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
inspiring
tense
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
4.75
Tbh I almost loved this book more than the first in the series. Althought it still had the wandering plot and random side quests from the first book, I felt it was very cohesive and an excellent adventure novel with dynamic characters and plot.
emeszee's review against another edition
5.0
[5/5]
Mackenzi Lee did it again. She simultaneously gave me all the love possible in the world and also crushed it, but brought it back again. This book is a work of freaking art. It contains all goodness: powerful af women, Monty and Percy, iconic scenes. It also has all the badness: dangerous affairs and, oh yeah, extremely dumb homophobia and sexism. First, allow me to discuss the badness because I don't want to go on a full blown love rant over Monty, Felicity, and Percy and then talk about dumb discrimination. This snippet is spoilerish so here is some blasphemy from the 1700s. Alright, now the goodness. Through her journey, Felicity meets some fabulous women. Johanna is her childhood friend that she reunites with. They had a row when they were younger and have hated each other, but they finally make up. It's good. There's also Sim. She's the daughter of an extremely powerful pirate. It would take me absolutely ages to talk about her. I just love her s o m u c h. Monty and Percy are so.... how do the kids say it these days? They're so soft. I haven't read a more cute relationship in 84 years. They're so pure. If anything happens to them, I'm throwing hands. Now onto the iconic scenes. There's a multitude of amazing, phenomenal, show-stopping scenes in this book that almost made me miss the bus. You'll have to read the book to find out. Thank you, Mackenzi Lee, for providing me with such art. Thank you to the library for bringing this book when it did because otherwise, I'd be more stressed than I already am. READ THIS BOOK
Mackenzi Lee did it again. She simultaneously gave me all the love possible in the world and also crushed it, but brought it back again. This book is a work of freaking art. It contains all goodness: powerful af women, Monty and Percy, iconic scenes. It also has all the badness: dangerous affairs and, oh yeah, extremely dumb homophobia and sexism. First, allow me to discuss the badness because I don't want to go on a full blown love rant over Monty, Felicity, and Percy and then talk about dumb discrimination. This snippet is spoilerish so
Spoiler
Felicity's childhood friend, Johanna has an iconic mother who studies animals of some nature. Johanna's mother's research is in this museum. Felicity and Johanna go to this museum to try to retrieve the research, but aren't allowed in alone because they are women. Also, because of the crusty past, Percy and Monty have to live off of a few meager pennies and hide away just so they can stay together. AGH!aarnireads's review against another edition
5.0
Felicity is a fucking delight and I am her fan forever and ever. The little snippets of Monty and Percy were lovely too, they're super important to me and Felicity thinking of Percy as her other brother made me all teary.
ButF ELICITY what a goddamn aroace queen. She had inklings of the "I'm not like the other girls"-attitude that I despise in female characters but guess what - Felicity didn't despise other women, Felicity learned from other women and grew. I felt for Felicity, being undermined and dismissed by the men around her. I could _relate_ to her. That's not what I can say about a lot of YA heroines. (looking at you, Lila Bard... )
Also Sim <3
ButF ELICITY what a goddamn aroace queen. She had inklings of the "I'm not like the other girls"-attitude that I despise in female characters but guess what - Felicity didn't despise other women, Felicity learned from other women and grew. I felt for Felicity, being undermined and dismissed by the men around her. I could _relate_ to her. That's not what I can say about a lot of YA heroines. (looking at you, Lila Bard... )
Also Sim <3
ashction's review against another edition
4.0
4.5 stars for sure. Love seeing all these returning characters and the new ones who made this story so wonderful!
larry's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
ciuli's review against another edition
3.0
3/5
I went into this book fully conscious that I wasn't the biggest Felicity fan. I didn't really like her in the first book but I was like "A book with an aro-ace main character, with pirates and adventures!", I was curious about it and decided to give it chance. I'm sad to say that I kind of got what I was expecting, which isn't much.
Felicity is a brat. I know she acts the way she does because she is ambitious, and she's a feminist, and the level of male-female inequality in 1700 was just unbelievably high, buuut she's a brat. At the beginning of the book, she only cares about herself and her ambitions, not caring about how her actions or what she says reflects on others. She's always saying that she's so different from pre-tour Monty, but she's really not. She's only smarter, but she's very much self-centered. She thinks she's one of a kind, as if every other female of that era is just a blonde bimbo with no ambition. I'm sorry, but the way she treated Johanna is just wrong.
I loved Johanna. I love that she didn't put up with Felicity's superiority complex anymore and she just told her to hop off that pedestal she put herself on.
I am aware that throughout this book we are shown Felicity's growth, but considering this is the second book in a series, I was hoping that some of that growth had already happened in-between the time the two books are set, and we didn't have to start from the beginning all over again. I think this was probably done because the two books can be read as stand-alones, but having read the first one it felt repetitive.
That leads me to focus on another point: the repetitiveness of this book. We get that Felicity is smart. We get that she has read loads of medical books and stuff. That doesn't mean that we need endless specific explanations every single time something medical is involved. It's fine once, twice I already start to wrinkle my nose, the third time is just boring.
Considering the title, I was definitely expecting a more exciting plot. Up until three quarters of the book, nothing really happens, we just have first Felicity and then Johanna and Sim, moving from one city to the other, and that's it. The only bit of action we got is right at the end, and that's too little too late for me. Thank God for Monty and Percy though. I think the author too knows that the book was getting boring and she reintroduced them.
All this said, I know I only highlighted the aspects I didnt like, but that doesn't mean it was a total waste of time. The cast of characters and its diversity merits a shout-out, considering there is a aro-ace main character and a muslim lesbian or bi side character. It was a pleasant and easy read but as Marie Kondo would say (lol) it didn't spark joy in me.
I went into this book fully conscious that I wasn't the biggest Felicity fan. I didn't really like her in the first book but I was like "A book with an aro-ace main character, with pirates and adventures!", I was curious about it and decided to give it chance. I'm sad to say that I kind of got what I was expecting, which isn't much.
Felicity is a brat. I know she acts the way she does because she is ambitious, and she's a feminist, and the level of male-female inequality in 1700 was just unbelievably high, buuut she's a brat. At the beginning of the book, she only cares about herself and her ambitions, not caring about how her actions or what she says reflects on others. She's always saying that she's so different from pre-tour Monty, but she's really not. She's only smarter, but she's very much self-centered. She thinks she's one of a kind, as if every other female of that era is just a blonde bimbo with no ambition. I'm sorry, but the way she treated Johanna is just wrong.
I loved Johanna. I love that she didn't put up with Felicity's superiority complex anymore and she just told her to hop off that pedestal she put herself on.
I am aware that throughout this book we are shown Felicity's growth, but considering this is the second book in a series, I was hoping that some of that growth had already happened in-between the time the two books are set, and we didn't have to start from the beginning all over again. I think this was probably done because the two books can be read as stand-alones, but having read the first one it felt repetitive.
That leads me to focus on another point: the repetitiveness of this book. We get that Felicity is smart. We get that she has read loads of medical books and stuff. That doesn't mean that we need endless specific explanations every single time something medical is involved. It's fine once, twice I already start to wrinkle my nose, the third time is just boring.
Considering the title, I was definitely expecting a more exciting plot. Up until three quarters of the book, nothing really happens, we just have first Felicity and then Johanna and Sim, moving from one city to the other, and that's it. The only bit of action we got is right at the end, and that's too little too late for me. Thank God for Monty and Percy though. I think the author too knows that the book was getting boring and she reintroduced them.
All this said, I know I only highlighted the aspects I didnt like, but that doesn't mean it was a total waste of time. The cast of characters and its diversity merits a shout-out, considering there is a aro-ace main character and a muslim lesbian or bi side character. It was a pleasant and easy read but as Marie Kondo would say (lol) it didn't spark joy in me.
ewmanaia's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0