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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
I really, really enjoyed this !! However, I am sad Percy's scheduling conflicts meant he couldn't be in it much
loved this just as much as the first two the montague siblings are my favorite
I loved the first two books in this series, but this did feel a little lackluster compared to the first two. I enjoyed the appearances of characters I loved in this book and seeing where they ended up 15+ years after their stories ended, but I felt less attached to the main character than with the previous two. The book was definitely compelling, but it was not the star that the first two were.
This book was such a great rounding out of the Montague Siblings trilogy - I've liked each of the books and this one was no exception. It follows the third, much younger Montague: Adrian. Like the others it is primarily adventure/coming-of-age. Lee does such an amazing job of writing a protagonist with anxiety/some compulsive behavior - I listened to the audiobook and during certain scenes I would swing wildly between "yes, this is so exactly what this feels like" and "aaaah OK I am getting stressed out vicariously and need to take a break now." It was also lovely to see her portrayals of Adrian's friends and family who want to understand but can't always - so true to life. Overall: a very engaging adventure tale, with a fairly authentic-feeling portrayal of someone coming into adulthood while coping with anxiety. And if you've read the other books in the series, it features all of the siblings and wraps up many stories quite well and satisfyingly!
I had been anticipating this book for a very long time and it did not disappoint! I absolutely adored Adrian and loved his interactions with both Monty and Felicity. I thought this book was the perfect conclusion to The Montague Siblings books. It left me both happy and sad; happy because of how well written it was but sad that the trilogy has ended.
4.5 stars, this whole series was adorable but this one was my favorite ❤️
Pirates, a possibly cursed family heirloom, ass tattoos, the most polite mutiny ever written, drunken benders, ghost ships, catacombs, a child tyrant, a gay wedding with flower crowns, giant slobbery dogs, lost and found family, and learning to live with debilitating mental illness: this book has a lot going for it. However, this was definitely the hardest to read of the Montague siblings trilogy, simply because it's hard to be inside Adrian's head, with his severe (SEVERE) anxiety that sometimes veers into bouts of OCD and mania. The plot is also definitely not its strongest feature, with a climax and resolution that certainly don't tidily answer the questions driving Adrian's actions for the prior 400ish pages of this not insubstantial novel, and a somewhat haphazard wild goose chase that ricochets from England to Morocco to Portugal to Iceland. However, it's such a treat to read Mackenzie Lee's characters, all of them disasters and many of them some kind of gay and/or gender nonconforming, transplanted into a wonderfully rendered historical fiction setting. I will read anything this author writes, hot damn.
The third and final Montague sibling book is hopeful and everything I needed it to be.
This is the conclusion of a lovely, wonderful, singular series. The installment jumps forward by 10 years from the previous book, which is one of my favorite things in a series. I love seeing what the characters have been up to for years, while I was away.
This book did not disappoint on that front. You do get a great look at what Monty, Percy and Felicity have been up to this whole time. It also introduces Adrian, the youngest of the Montague siblings (we did technically meet him as a baby in the previous books, see references to Goblin in books one and two).
I do think that a content warning would be helpful. Adrian suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and OCD, though historical England doesn’t have the right words or diagnosis for either. So he has a lot of dark and scary turns. Since the book is told from his point of view, so do we with him. The book made me feel very stressed, some of the down spirals being very close to my own anxieties. This felt like it treaded the same waters as The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang. The story is so important to tell, it just activated me in uncomfortable personal ways.
My favorite character in the first two and a half books was Percy and I wish there was more of him. #teampercy. I very much like Louisa, so she did soothe some of my Percy need, but she isn’t there for long #morelouisaplease
Favorite part of this book is how great the sibling relationship is. It is so genuine and real and messy. I felt like they included me on their quietly-whispered secrets. I leaned in so many times to listen.
Thank you Mackenzi Lee for completing this, for telling stories that contain real people and for the tiniest bit of magic, we all chase after, in our lives.
This book did not disappoint on that front. You do get a great look at what Monty, Percy and Felicity have been up to this whole time. It also introduces Adrian, the youngest of the Montague siblings (we did technically meet him as a baby in the previous books, see references to Goblin in books one and two).
I do think that a content warning would be helpful. Adrian suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and OCD, though historical England doesn’t have the right words or diagnosis for either. So he has a lot of dark and scary turns. Since the book is told from his point of view, so do we with him. The book made me feel very stressed, some of the down spirals being very close to my own anxieties. This felt like it treaded the same waters as The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang. The story is so important to tell, it just activated me in uncomfortable personal ways.
My favorite character in the first two and a half books was Percy and I wish there was more of him. #teampercy. I very much like Louisa, so she did soothe some of my Percy need, but she isn’t there for long #morelouisaplease
Favorite part of this book is how great the sibling relationship is. It is so genuine and real and messy. I felt like they included me on their quietly-whispered secrets. I leaned in so many times to listen.
Thank you Mackenzi Lee for completing this, for telling stories that contain real people and for the tiniest bit of magic, we all chase after, in our lives.