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Book Review: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee


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Rating: 5 stars. 

This book was absolutely fabulous! I want to recommend it to everyone I meet. It's definitely going to be one of my favourites of the year.

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is about Monty, a guy in the 1700s who is going on a tour with his best friend and great love, Percy, and his sister, Felicity. During their travels, they learn a lot about each other and get caught up in a conspiracy which leads them to be on the run.

I may not be able to fully express my immense love of this book, but I guess I can try, right?

Well,  first of, I love books with pirates in them, so this book became even better because they were in it! The settings in TGGTVAV were very well described and interesting. This book takes place first in England and then in France, Barcelona and Greece. These are all places that I'd love to visit so reading the gang's adventures was great!

I absolutely loved the characters: Monty and Percy are absolute adorable and Felicity is such an inspiring woman. The character development was GLORIOUS you guys! Monty is bisexual and is a very complex guy. He is abused by his father and is very scarred by this. He can be a bit selfish, but he really wants to work on that. As the book goes on, you get to see him become braver. Percy is such an interesting character as well! (but I'm not going to spoil you about why he is so cool) Felicity is a feminist and apparently there's going to be a sequel just about here and I'm so excited! I was so happy that I got to know the side characters very well.

The plot was so unique too! I don't read much about alchemy and epilepsy in historical times, so this was very interesting experience for me. I love YA historical books that are funny and kind of distort history. If you loved My Lady Jane like I did, you might love TGGTVAV.

JUST PLEASE READ THIS BOOK! The cover didn't convince you enough?
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