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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
by Mackenzi Lee
I found that while I enjoyed reading from Felicity and related to her struggles of being taken seriously, this book fell flat in delivering her story well. Felicity is a character that needed to be knocked down from her superiority complex and I’m glad that Sim and Johanna did that for her. But her feelings of regret for the way she treats these two girls falls flat due to there only being one to two instances when she feels this way.
The pacing was off, too. The book is slow in the beginning, which can can great. You don’t need to start every book with a bang. But the plot, the actual direction of the book and Felicity’s initiating event doesn’t happen till halfway through. Then the book picks up way too much steam, pushes past moments that could be powerful, and races to the end. The section with Callum doesn’t need to be there, nor Felicity’s letter to him. We should start with Felicity in London and then preaching to the hospital governors. Then we can move into her chasing her idol with Sim.
Monty also felt rather off to me. He felt too antagonistic in the beginning. He says a line about how you don’t always get your dreams, but yet he’s living a dream with Monty. He just felt OOC in some scenes to fit a mold of antagonistic male figure.
The pacing was off, too. The book is slow in the beginning, which can can great. You don’t need to start every book with a bang. But the plot, the actual direction of the book and Felicity’s initiating event doesn’t happen till halfway through. Then the book picks up way too much steam, pushes past moments that could be powerful, and races to the end. The section with Callum doesn’t need to be there, nor Felicity’s letter to him. We should start with Felicity in London and then preaching to the hospital governors. Then we can move into her chasing her idol with Sim.
Monty also felt rather off to me. He felt too antagonistic in the beginning. He says a line about how you don’t always get your dreams, but yet he’s living a dream with Monty. He just felt OOC in some scenes to fit a mold of antagonistic male figure.