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

by Mackenzi Lee

Perhaps this is what the Grand Tour is meant to do—show me the way other people live, in lives that are not like my own. It’s a strange feeling, realizing that other people you don’t know have their own full lives that don’t touch yours.

“Because I want you to know,” she says, “that there is life after survival.”

Among the pirates, he has nothing to prove.

This was a huge moment for Monty in my opinion. I think he was so used to being around Percy and “didn’t see color” that a lot of what Percy was up against as a Black man in their circle didn’t really click for him. To him Percy seemed accepted but he was really just tolerated.

And I don’t think I have to be well to be happy. God.”

I appreciated this so so much. Not many write about disabled characters with this perceptive.

I’m an epileptic—that’s my lot. It isn’t easy and it isn’t very enjoyable but this is what I’ve got to live with. This is who I am, and I don’t think I’m insane. I don’t think I should be locked up and I don’t think I need to be cured of it for my life to be good. But no one seems to agree with me on that, and I was hoping you’d be different,

“Whatever things we have standing in our way, this isn’t one.”

All this while I’d spent thinking we could never be together because we’re both lads, but it’s not—it’s because of me.

The self awareness Monty got through this book was so well done