❄️BooksofRadiance❄️'s Reviews > The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

4.5 ⭐️

The more times you read it the better it gets.

Yet another FANTASTIC re read.

Monty, my roguish booze-hound seductive charmer, oh, how I love thee!!!



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ORIGINAL REVIEW

I think I ended this book with a migraine because I was grinning and laughing like an idiot the whole way through that it slowly took its toll on my brain. ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT!

WONDERFUL. Just wonderful! So delightfully heartwarming and hilarious. The Gentleman’s Guide follows our main lead Monty who sets out on a grand tour around Europe with his best friend Percy and younger sister Felicity before taking over the family estate and... things basically go downhills from there.

I cannot stress how hilarious this book is. Monty’s narration on the situations they find themselves in, the banter and insults they throw at each other and the way the author weaves in a range of themes and topics like disability, women’s place in society, abuse, race and sexuality with such intellect and compassion – while inserting humour and lightheartedness made this one of the most enjoyable reads of 2017 for me.

✨ Monty: A hilarious (sensing a theme here?), fun-loving Bi-sexual British lord in love with his best friend, Percy. He is an absolute delight who, not only happens to be utterly and completely useless in times of crisis, more often than not, he IS the cause of most of their troubles.

✨ Percy: A ray of sunshine and the most patient, sweet and loving guy who constantly has to deal with the backlash of his racial status.

✨ Felicity is simply a clever gem. She is sassy, brilliant and a resourceful girl whose role is more like the protector of the group rather than 'Monty’s tag-along younger sister.'

There’s so much depth and layers to these characters. Percy, having to deal with racial discrimination, Felicity not being able to do what she really wants, as opposed to what society dictates she must do, Monty-though clueless at the start and somewhat shallow, slowly having to confront his privileges over these two people that he loves in terms of their social standing as well as having to confront his own issues and realising certain things about himself and his growth over the course of the book was all beautifully written.

And the romance! 😍 Guys, if nothing else, the heavy dose of romance alone, that’s simply heartwarming and gush-worthy should more than suffice to encourage you to give this a try.
Monty’s inner monologue about Percy... ahhhh holy crap, it was like sparks were flying through the pages!💕

Seriously – Go get your hearts all warm and fuzzy. ❤️