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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
adventurous
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
Adrian needs all of the hugs from Lou after his harrowing adventures! I loved how he was reacquainted with his older siblings!
I really enjoyed this series. This book in particular provides a perspective on anxiety from the narrator’s point of view. We go with Adrian down his spirals, and it feels real and not overdone or tiresome to read. Lots of good quotes about mental health too.
“It feels like someone is shouting at me all the time, all these lies that I know are lies but I’m so terrified of what will happen if I don’t listen, and then it just gets louder and louder so that I can’t hear anything else over it all and I can’t make them stop.”
“God, is this going to take years?” “It’s going to take your whole life,” Felicity says. “But it doesn’t have to be the defining element of it. You can find systems to put in place so that even when you’re at your worst, there are people around you who know how to help and don’t give up on you.”
“I want to belong to myself. I want to stop feeling worthless and pointless and hopeless and less, less, less than everyone else around me. I want to live, not just survive, and fill myself up with all the people who have loved me into this moment and this man. I want to believe I am good and kind and clever and worthy with as much conviction as I believe the opposites. I want to stop picking at life like it’s a meal I don’t want to eat, because I want to. I want to taste it all. I want life to be a feast, even if I have to eat it raw and bloody and burned some days.”
“…lie on the bed, breathing deeply and repeating to myself, ‘Everyone here is kind and talking with them cannot hurt you,’ followed by ‘but it’s still all right you’re nervous; it doesn’t have to make sense or be talked down by rational thinking.’ It’s a difficult balancing act. Harder to make myself believe it.”
“I know it will not always be like this. There will be days it is loud, and others it is heavy. For every summer solstice, there is darkness on the other side of the world. There will be days that staying alive will be an all-consuming challenge, and accepting love an act of tremendous courage. Asking for help even more so. Days of loneliness and doubt will compound and maybe there will be whole months when I cannot see the sky, and all the perspective I have now is lost in the crash. There will be peaks and dales. Rivers and roads. But I will do my best to keep walking out of the darkness. I will let it all happen to me, beauty and terror and love and hate and ugliness and anger and fear. I know that no feeling is final, and that fear only wins when I stop fighting. I will push through it all, and see you on the other side.”
“It feels like someone is shouting at me all the time, all these lies that I know are lies but I’m so terrified of what will happen if I don’t listen, and then it just gets louder and louder so that I can’t hear anything else over it all and I can’t make them stop.”
“God, is this going to take years?” “It’s going to take your whole life,” Felicity says. “But it doesn’t have to be the defining element of it. You can find systems to put in place so that even when you’re at your worst, there are people around you who know how to help and don’t give up on you.”
“I want to belong to myself. I want to stop feeling worthless and pointless and hopeless and less, less, less than everyone else around me. I want to live, not just survive, and fill myself up with all the people who have loved me into this moment and this man. I want to believe I am good and kind and clever and worthy with as much conviction as I believe the opposites. I want to stop picking at life like it’s a meal I don’t want to eat, because I want to. I want to taste it all. I want life to be a feast, even if I have to eat it raw and bloody and burned some days.”
“…lie on the bed, breathing deeply and repeating to myself, ‘Everyone here is kind and talking with them cannot hurt you,’ followed by ‘but it’s still all right you’re nervous; it doesn’t have to make sense or be talked down by rational thinking.’ It’s a difficult balancing act. Harder to make myself believe it.”
“I know it will not always be like this. There will be days it is loud, and others it is heavy. For every summer solstice, there is darkness on the other side of the world. There will be days that staying alive will be an all-consuming challenge, and accepting love an act of tremendous courage. Asking for help even more so. Days of loneliness and doubt will compound and maybe there will be whole months when I cannot see the sky, and all the perspective I have now is lost in the crash. There will be peaks and dales. Rivers and roads. But I will do my best to keep walking out of the darkness. I will let it all happen to me, beauty and terror and love and hate and ugliness and anger and fear. I know that no feeling is final, and that fear only wins when I stop fighting. I will push through it all, and see you on the other side.”
adventurous
funny
hopeful
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
The final book in the Montague trilogy, and honestly, Adrian is the most relatable of the siblings to me. Don't get me wrong: Felicity and her book are definitely my favorite (and the strongest) of the three, but there's just something haplessly endearing about Adrian Montague. But, more than that, I appreciated the very real depiction of anxiety that this character was afflicted with. It would have been a nice, easy cop out for Lee to keep the anxiety to interpersonal relationships (which is how I've mostly seen anxiety depicted in fiction), but it extended to the world around him: from food to his own opinions.
I continue to absolutely despise Monty's, Felicity's, and Adrian's father — my god, he just gets more and more awful — and I actually find that I have very little sympathy for their mother. In the first book, she was aloof and extremely hands off, and in this book, we see a slightly better glimpse of her, but she's still... absent. Even from Adrian's memories: it's less about his mother herself and more about the things she did. It almost seems as though Caroline was a ghost in her own life, which seems fitting considering the whole ghost ship story that this book is chasing.
All in all, I enjoyed it. I even found Monty to be mildly more tolerable than usual! I just wish we'd gotten way more Louisa than we did.
I continue to absolutely despise Monty's, Felicity's, and Adrian's father — my god, he just gets more and more awful — and I actually find that I have very little sympathy for their mother. In the first book, she was aloof and extremely hands off, and in this book, we see a slightly better glimpse of her, but she's still... absent. Even from Adrian's memories: it's less about his mother herself and more about the things she did. It almost seems as though Caroline was a ghost in her own life, which seems fitting considering the whole ghost ship story that this book is chasing.
All in all, I enjoyed it. I even found Monty to be mildly more tolerable than usual! I just wish we'd gotten way more Louisa than we did.
I saw a friend was reading The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue and remembered, oh! I read those books! Only when I read them there were only the first two out, so I never got around to this one (I didn't even know this one existed). I quickly re-read the first two books and just finished this one, so I guess this review will encompass all three.
The Montague Siblings books are fun and thoughtful, nuanced in a unique way when it comes to things like mental health issues, family relations, sexuality, ambitions.... life in general, I guess. While they are action-packed adventure novels full of pirates and lost treasures and mysteries, they are also grounded in a very human way. Each of the siblings wormed their way into my heart (but Monty will always be my favorite asshole). I especially liked how the last book takes place almost two decades after the events of the first two books, so we get to see how Monty and Felicity grew up and changed.
Overall a fun trilogy, with a great message of accepting yourself, and growing and healing from your circumstances.
The Montague Siblings books are fun and thoughtful, nuanced in a unique way when it comes to things like mental health issues, family relations, sexuality, ambitions.... life in general, I guess. While they are action-packed adventure novels full of pirates and lost treasures and mysteries, they are also grounded in a very human way. Each of the siblings wormed their way into my heart (but Monty will always be my favorite asshole). I especially liked how the last book takes place almost two decades after the events of the first two books, so we get to see how Monty and Felicity grew up and changed.
Overall a fun trilogy, with a great message of accepting yourself, and growing and healing from your circumstances.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
sarja eelmiste osade pealt oli ette teada, et Montague pere lapsed ei pruugi olla kõige sümpaatsemad peategelased ja et kui minajutustaja närvidele käib, siis tuleb see lihtsalt üle elada ja mänguga kaasa minna. vanim vend Monty oli kuni oma raamatu lõpuni suhteliselt talumatu tüüp ja õel Felicityl läks ka aega, enne kui ta mulle meeldima hakkas (lõpuks ikka hakkas). nii et kui nüüd selgus, et sarja alguses beebina esinenud noorim vend on suureks kasvanud ja et ta nimi on Adrian ja ta pärib iga hetk oma isa varanduse, tiitli ja koha lordidekojas... ja et ta EI TEA, et tal on vend ja õde... noh, olin täiesti valmis selleks, et pean järjekordse traumeeritud ja samas ärahellitatud lapsukese inimesekskasvamise kaasa tegema. lihtsalt sellepärast, et juba raamatu pealkiri on nii hea, et kuidas sa ei loe. ja seiklused ka täitsa... seikluslikud (ma ikka sellest piraaditeemast ei pääse kuhugi viimasel ajal. Lendav Hollandlane - check!)
aga kuigi Adriani peas olla ja tema mõtteid-tundeid lähedalt näha ei olnud lihtne ei mul ega tal endal, oli ta ikkagi sümpaatne tegelane algusest peale. kui Monty lugu rääkis geiarmastusest ja Felicity oma naisõiguslusest, siis Adriani leitmotiiv oli vaimne tervis - täpsemalt ärevushäire ja OCD. ma arvasin, et mind ei huvita see teema eriti, aga tõesti osavalt oli kirja pandud ja lõpuks elasin täiega kaasa. (järelsõnas tunnistab autor, et see on kõik omaenda kogemusest maha kirjutatud. respekt. ses mõttes, et kui need mõtted ja tunded tõesti sellised on, siis pidi eduka raamatutriloogia kirjutamine ja väljaandmine ikka päris raske olema.)
Monty, Felicity ja eelmistest lugudest tuttavate kõrvaltegelastega kohtume siin ka. muidu kõik tore ja äratundmisrõõmu on ja seda rõõmu ka, et saame siis teada, mis neist vahepeal edasi sai. ainult see jäi häirima, et see "vahepeal" on peaaegu 20 aastat hiljem (Adrian on 18 ja ta oli esimese raamatu alguses vastsündinu) ja enamus neid inimesi peaks seega olema vanuselt 40 ligi, aga ükski eriti nii ei käitu ega räägi küll. ikka nagu kamp hilisteismelisi.
Felicity lugu (The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy) jääb mu lemmikuks sellest triloogiast (no kuulge, see pealkiri juba), aga sari vääris lõpunilugemist küll. kahju ainult, et esimene osa on kolmest nõrgim ja et paljudel lugejatel jääb ilmselt juba seal pooleli see saaga.
aga kuigi Adriani peas olla ja tema mõtteid-tundeid lähedalt näha ei olnud lihtne ei mul ega tal endal, oli ta ikkagi sümpaatne tegelane algusest peale. kui Monty lugu rääkis geiarmastusest ja Felicity oma naisõiguslusest, siis Adriani leitmotiiv oli vaimne tervis - täpsemalt ärevushäire ja OCD. ma arvasin, et mind ei huvita see teema eriti, aga tõesti osavalt oli kirja pandud ja lõpuks elasin täiega kaasa. (järelsõnas tunnistab autor, et see on kõik omaenda kogemusest maha kirjutatud. respekt. ses mõttes, et kui need mõtted ja tunded tõesti sellised on, siis pidi eduka raamatutriloogia kirjutamine ja väljaandmine ikka päris raske olema.)
Monty, Felicity ja eelmistest lugudest tuttavate kõrvaltegelastega kohtume siin ka. muidu kõik tore ja äratundmisrõõmu on ja seda rõõmu ka, et saame siis teada, mis neist vahepeal edasi sai. ainult see jäi häirima, et see "vahepeal" on peaaegu 20 aastat hiljem (Adrian on 18 ja ta oli esimese raamatu alguses vastsündinu) ja enamus neid inimesi peaks seega olema vanuselt 40 ligi, aga ükski eriti nii ei käitu ega räägi küll. ikka nagu kamp hilisteismelisi.
Felicity lugu (The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy) jääb mu lemmikuks sellest triloogiast (no kuulge, see pealkiri juba), aga sari vääris lõpunilugemist küll. kahju ainult, et esimene osa on kolmest nõrgim ja et paljudel lugejatel jääb ilmselt juba seal pooleli see saaga.
This was a nice way to wrap up the series, but it felt overly long. I felt as though i had been on a year long journey, instead of the Montague siblings.