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A review by siannaz
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee
3.0
“everyone has heard stories of women like us—cautionary tales, morality plays, warnings of what will befall you if you are a girl too wild for the world, a girl who asks too many questions or wants too much. if you set off into the world alone. everyone has heard stories of women like us, and now we will make more of them.”
a good book, though i prefered a gentleman's guide to vices and virtue. still, i enjoyed seeing a female perspective set in the 18th century that was quite different from what i expected.
ok but seriously—i love the characters! felicitty is more of your typical feminist-in-a-sexist-world that you can find more and more nowadays, who casts off girly things like dresses and makeup and parties in favor of 'unladylike' things that get her hands dirty. and, that's all well and good, but johanna? she is proof that one can like girly things like cosmetics and fashion, and it doesn't make you any less of a badass. that is something that is not expressed enough in historical ya, and it is so important imo. there is not one way to defy the patriachy, and each way is just as effective.
anyways, this was great.
>> 3.5 stars
a good book, though i prefered a gentleman's guide to vices and virtue. still, i enjoyed seeing a female perspective set in the 18th century that was quite different from what i expected.
ok but seriously—i love the characters! felicitty is more of your typical feminist-in-a-sexist-world that you can find more and more nowadays, who casts off girly things like dresses and makeup and parties in favor of 'unladylike' things that get her hands dirty. and, that's all well and good, but johanna? she is proof that one can like girly things like cosmetics and fashion, and it doesn't make you any less of a badass. that is something that is not expressed enough in historical ya, and it is so important imo. there is not one way to defy the patriachy, and each way is just as effective.
anyways, this was great.
>> 3.5 stars