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  • The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

  • By: Mackenzi Lee
  • Narrated by: Moira Quirk
  • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (105 ratings)

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The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

By: Mackenzi Lee
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
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Publisher's Summary

In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times best-selling The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor - even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it. A must-have for fans of Mackenzi Lee’s extraordinary and Stonewall Honor-winning novel.

A year after an accidentally whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague has returned to England with two goals in mind - avoid the marriage proposal of a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh and enroll in medical school. However, her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators, who see men as the sole guardians of science.

But then a window of opportunity opens - a doctor she idolizes is marrying an old friend of hers in Germany. Felicity believes if she could meet this man he could change her future, but she has no money of her own to make the trip. Luckily, a mysterious young woman is willing to pay Felicity’s way, so long as she’s allowed to travel with Felicity disguised as her maid.

In spite of her suspicions, Felicity agrees, but once the girl’s true motives are revealed, Felicity becomes part of a perilous quest that leads them from the German countryside to the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic.

©2018 Mackenzie Van Engelenhoven (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic Reviews

"Moira Quirk gives crisp, purposeful voice to Felicity Montague, a young Englishwoman in the 1700s with the single-minded ambition to become a doctor - a path that seems hopelessly closed to her.... Quirk makes the most of her portrayal of Johanna, whose high, girlish voice rises and falls with her emotions and belies her strength and ingenuity....listeners will be rooting all the way for these formidable women who are determined to carve out lives for themselves on their own terms." (AudioFile)

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a fun romp with a heap of heart

fun historical fiction with all the representation. ace rep among them! and those friendships were so good. it was also very sweet to see Monty and Percy from the outside

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Headstrong and independent Felicity

I do enjoy when Felicity Montague goes on a rant! For such a smart, witty lady, she does make some unrelatable choices... but the story was exciting and made me laugh out loud on several occasions.

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A good story but irritating main character

The story and message behind it is great but the main character is overly irritating, she's selfish, self-centered and judgemental, which made it quite hard to listen to for too long. Not sure she's meant to come off so unlikeable but the storyline is all that kept me interested. Would not be in a hurry to listen to another one.

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4.5 stars!

Oh my, this book makes me want to take to the streets and declare a war on the patriarchy and start burning stuff. Strong women, an awesome dog, Monty and Percy, crazy adventures, pirates and dragons... this book has it all.

The only reason for not giving it the full 5 stars is that l just didn't quite love it as much as The Gentleman's Guide. The adventures were still fantastic, the writing was brilliant and I did love Felicity, Sim and Johanna; they just weren't at Monty levels.

At the beginning I did dislike the narrator's voice for Monty, but only because the first books narration was so unbelievably perfect. And given that this was Felicitys book and the narrator is female, she did still do a really good job and I got used to it pretty quickly.

I wholeheartedly recommend this book! 💜

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Fun story

It was a fun story with good side characters and great representation. Enjoyable but I didn’t love it as much as the first novel, A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue.

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Great book!

Super enjoyed it. Loved seeing a little of Monty and Percy! I really liked Felicity’s story, I liked the bit of mythology too it. I liked Sim and Joanna too.

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