Waiting on Wednesday | #63

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating. Click on the cover for the link to its Goodreads page.

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

I am so excited for this book. I haven’t read The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue but from the people that did — they have said that their favorite character in the novel was Felicity. So, I am excited to find out more about her and find out why they love her. 

I am glad to see it is the same vein as The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue but it isn’t the same at the same time. I love the colors, the yellows, and the purples. I love the drawings on the cover. It shows what we might see in the novel. 

Felicity Montague is through with pretending she prefers society parties to books about bone setting — or that she’s not smarter than most people she knows, or that she cares about anything more than her dream of becoming a doctor.

A year after an accidentally whirlwind tour of Europe, which she spent evading highwaymen and pirates with her brother Monty, Felicity has returned to England with two goals in mind — avoid the marriage proposal of Callum Doyle, 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 small window of hope opens. Doctor Alexander Platt, an eccentric physician that Felicity idolizes, is looking for research assistants, and Felicity is sure that someone as forward thinking as her hero would be willing to take her on. However, Platt is in Germany, preparing to wed Felicity’s estranged childhood friend Johanna. Not only is Felicity reluctant to opening old wounds, she also has no money 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 will lead her from the German countryside to the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic.

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