A review by hmatt
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This one lost me midway though. The change in tone

, basically at the point where they leave Zurich on,

made it feel like 2 separate books to me. And, while I appreciate the ~strong female lead/ace rep/all of that, of course I do, most of it seemed very heavy-handed and clunk-ily stuffed into the narrative via long internal monologues from the main character. 

Perhaps this is another case of me not loving YA as a genre but continuing to read it because it is both more lighthearted and includes a wider variety of queer narratives than the other genres I like...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death