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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)

Mackenzi Lee

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Why we're reading this: Madcap adventure, accidental garden nudity, weird alchemical secrets, political intrigue, and maybe Monty…more
[close] Madcap adventure, accidental garden nudity, weird alchemical secrets, political intrigue, and maybe Monty likes his BFF in a romantic way.

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Jul 02, 2016 Martha rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: totally-my-jam-yes, faster-why-aren-t-you-out-yet

Yep, it's 100% as good as everyone says. Not only that, but it's also proof that it's possible to write a long period romance and not have it get repetitive and boring during the middle 2/3 while you wait for the inevitable coupling. (TBH, it's reassuring that it's ok I'm so bored by like 75% of the romances/romance-adjacent books I read -- I was starting to think making the story compelling throughout wasn't possible.) In addition, it's a fun as hell story with representation of varied sexualit ...more

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Jul 24, 2021 Jaime rated it really liked it

Shelves: lgbtq, read-2021, young-adult, forbidden-love, ya-adventure

Monty is a gentleman in name only. He is much more interested in partying and carousing (mostly with other men) than he is with learning how to run an estate, something that has angered his father greatly. So he has issued an ultimatum. Monty will be allowed to go on a "grand tour" of Europe with his sister, Felicity, and his best friend (and unrequited crush) Percy, but after that, Monty will buckle down and work, or he will be disowned.

But the tour isn't quite what Monty expected, and when, in ...more

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Mar 31, 2018 Dana Berglund rated it liked it

Shelves: youngadult, queer

This was a fun book that started out as a young man's last hurrah before taking up the mantle of his father's business...and turned into an action novel with alchemy and pirates. (I guess I never read all the way to the end of the description.) I liked the novel more when it was being what seemed to be realistic, and felt like it got off track (and stayed there) once they were talking about immortality. There are many poignant moments, and it is nice to see how Monty grew up and discovered other ...more

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Oct 12, 2017 Lauren rated it it was amazing

A rip-roaring romp through 18th century Europe that feels like the first chapter to this young man's discovery of self and what it really means to have a good life. Honorable Mentions to his companions: plucky, capable, someone-you'd-want-by-your side-in-case-of-emergency-sister and endlessly patient love interest BFF. ...more

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Nov 23, 2017 Cari rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya, historical, audiobooks

4.5 stars for this absolutely delightful romp. Clearly I’ve been missing out on this genre, where are all the other YA historical adventure books with a gay romance?!?

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