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A review by rosska22
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee
3.0
This book wasn't bad. It was, however, overly long. All of the action in this book occurs in the last hundred pages, if that. It was simultaneously long winded and terribly rushed. Felicity Montague was not a sympathetic character, and in fact I spent most of the book terribly unimpressed with her. Towards the beginning of the book, a doctor fellow tells her (after many rejections to many medical schools) that she should endeavor to become a midwife, or a nurse, or some such position much like that of a doctor but without the "having been admitted to medical school" bit. She disregards this as a fantastical and misogynistic nonsense option. What I think she failed to take into account was that what she wants to do is help people. She could do one of those typically female jobs, gain the practical experience and then use that as a lobbying position to gain admittance to a medical school. She could go somewhere besides England and apply for a medical license. There are many options, and it isn't until WAY TOO FAR INTO THE BOOK that she begins to even consider that maybe her position has been a bit stilted. She's whiny, she's mean, and she has no consideration for others feelings, thoughts, or opinions, and it made it very difficult for me to support her in her endeavors, because I felt like she was in the wrong of it the entire time.
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