The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzi LeeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
So how long has it been since the second book of this series - two years? Three? Something like that. Maybe it just feels longer because it's so unusual for a YA author to go more than a year in between publishing novels - but then again, this is Mackenzi Lee we're talking about. It was over a year's gap between the first two Montague books, if I remember correctly. And then of course, Lee's reputation has taken quite the beating in the last few years as the target of numerous Book Twitter cancellation campaigns (at least one of which I'm sure she obliquely referenced with the Amsterdam section of this book opening up with mention of all the tulips being dead). But you know what? For a surprising distant epilogue to the greater stories of Monty and Felicity, as well as the exploration of the life of Adrian - by far the most heterosexual of the three siblings, but also for sure someone who would be marginalized in "polite" society due to his debilitating mental struggles, which Lee has said are inspired by her own, as, I'm sure, is Adrian's desire to champion liberal causes even in the face of his conservative upbringing - I'm just glad to see Lee get back up to her rollicking, adventurous storytelling style once again. And to the Montague siblings - all of them - I hereby bid ave atque vale at long last.
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