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A year after a whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague has returned to England with two goals in mind: avoid the marriage proposal of a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh and enroll in medical school. But the administrators, see men as the sole guardians of science. When a doctor she idolizes marries a friend of hers in Germany, Felicity believes he could change her future. A mysterious young woman will pay Felicity's way, if Felicity will let her travel along-- as her show more maid. Soon they're on a perilous quest that leads them across the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic. -- Adapted from jacket. show lessTags
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Hugely entertaining high adventures in the 18th century. I enjoyed the first book; I liked this even better. The prickly and stubborn main character is an delight to my heart. Her constant impatience with romance is refreshing, and all of the women’s struggles with ambition vs expectations reads as deeply authentic. Pirates, cleverness, Muslim characters, same sex attractions, a really drooly dog, and all in a fast paced, historically grounded book. What more can you want? It’s excellent.
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This was fun, but in a different way from The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. Felicity’s more serious than Monty and more analytical, and the narration reflects that. She’s also more likely to plan, even if the plans go askew, so there’s significantly less chaos. (Don’t worry, there’s still a lot of adventuring!)
No, the fun’s less in the humour of social awkwardness and pratfalls and the occasional aside, and much more in watching the trio—Felicity, Sim the pirate, and Johanna the friend—fight and triumph against sexism and generally be awesome. They don’t feel like they’re out of place in their era, either, for all that their sentiments are often relatable. I’m with Lee in believing that historical women show more weren’t doormats who did whatever men told them. They had to have chafed and fought back—and these girls definitely do.
There’s also some good discussion about colonialism, discovery, and the rights of non-Europeans to control their destiny and lands, and of family legacies, and the price and rewards of independence and thwarting the rules, and learning that there are other ways of being than your own. And also Monty and Percy, a hairy mess of a marshmallow dog, and more not-entirely-historical fantasy elements.
This is also a well-paced book, with one problem being solved in time for another to pop up, one adventure ending just in time for another to be necessary, and enough moments to catch your breath so it doesn’t all feel frantic. Unexpected things happen. There are good twists. Things I was hoping to happen did—and didn’t.
Plot-wise, theme-wise, ladies-wise, in other words, this was all very enjoyable and solid, and up my alley. In terms of queer content, though, well. I really liked how Felicity’s asexuality was portrayed, because it synced well with my own experiences. She doesn’t feel like she’s missing something or missing out or anything, her priorities are medicine and success and her friends, she chooses function over fashion, and she’s blindsided by romance in a way that also felt familiar. I did go in thinking she was aromantic as well, but now I’m not entirely sure. She can be read that way, but she can also be read as homoromantic and interested in Sim*. Personally, I miss a lot of romantic nuance so eh. *shrugs* Not a big deal to me anyway.
And now I’m liable to rehash things or spoil more of the story than I have, so I’ll stop writing. This was good! Fun! Relatable! Strong! Feminist! Ace! I’m probably happy now that I’ve read both Monty’s and Felicity’s stories, but if Lee wants to write more, I will definitely not be upset.
* Yes, Sim is a North African Muslim sapphic pirate.
Warnings: Misogyny, internalized misogyny, glimpses of racism. Kidnap, coercion. One enslaved but otherwise well-treated African woman. Blood and gore. Protective siblings.
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No, the fun’s less in the humour of social awkwardness and pratfalls and the occasional aside, and much more in watching the trio—Felicity, Sim the pirate, and Johanna the friend—fight and triumph against sexism and generally be awesome. They don’t feel like they’re out of place in their era, either, for all that their sentiments are often relatable. I’m with Lee in believing that historical women show more weren’t doormats who did whatever men told them. They had to have chafed and fought back—and these girls definitely do.
There’s also some good discussion about colonialism, discovery, and the rights of non-Europeans to control their destiny and lands, and of family legacies, and the price and rewards of independence and thwarting the rules, and learning that there are other ways of being than your own. And also Monty and Percy, a hairy mess of a marshmallow dog, and more not-entirely-historical fantasy elements.
This is also a well-paced book, with one problem being solved in time for another to pop up, one adventure ending just in time for another to be necessary, and enough moments to catch your breath so it doesn’t all feel frantic. Unexpected things happen. There are good twists. Things I was hoping to happen did—and didn’t.
Plot-wise, theme-wise, ladies-wise, in other words, this was all very enjoyable and solid, and up my alley. In terms of queer content, though, well. I really liked how Felicity’s asexuality was portrayed, because it synced well with my own experiences. She doesn’t feel like she’s missing something or missing out or anything, her priorities are medicine and success and her friends, she chooses function over fashion, and she’s blindsided by romance in a way that also felt familiar. I did go in thinking she was aromantic as well, but now I’m not entirely sure. She can be read that way, but she can also be read as homoromantic and interested in Sim*. Personally, I miss a lot of romantic nuance so eh. *shrugs* Not a big deal to me anyway.
And now I’m liable to rehash things or spoil more of the story than I have, so I’ll stop writing. This was good! Fun! Relatable! Strong! Feminist! Ace! I’m probably happy now that I’ve read both Monty’s and Felicity’s stories, but if Lee wants to write more, I will definitely not be upset.
* Yes, Sim is a North African Muslim sapphic pirate.
Warnings: Misogyny, internalized misogyny, glimpses of racism. Kidnap, coercion. One enslaved but otherwise well-treated African woman. Blood and gore. Protective siblings.
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Well it was only FITTING that this book would be in SCOTLAND and I would start the audiobook while out HIKING in SCOTLAND! I, thankfully, had not cut off my finger though.
So everyone told me to read this one in particular because it features an asexual girl so obviously I'd love it, right? Well, thing is, sexuality is so multifaceted and aromanticism is also a thing (and an excellent album) but I am about as alloromantic as I am asexual and my favourite part of the first book was the romance, so it made me quite sad that there wasn't any of that beautiful underlying romantic plot in here so in that regard I think I would have liked this more if Felicity had been allo! Weird, right? Terrible of me!
That being said, the aro/ace rep was so show more lovely, and since I get grumpy when there are sex scenes ruining perfectly good books, I'm glad that this is a book for the people that grumpy when there are romance scenes! And I related so much to many points.The scene where Sim kisses Felicity (which, hello, called it), though of course in my life, such experiences came with a lot more emotional angst. Good ol' Felicity is just like "whatever."
My favourite aspect of this was Max. Duh. But I think my next favourite part was the criticism of girl hate and the way Johanna demonstrated that girls can be super smart and like looking pretty, too.
This was a lot of fun to listen to while hiking with holes in my feet! Yay holes in my feet! Yay Percy and Monty for being the darn cutest couple! (Yay too many exclamations!) show less
So everyone told me to read this one in particular because it features an asexual girl so obviously I'd love it, right? Well, thing is, sexuality is so multifaceted and aromanticism is also a thing (and an excellent album) but I am about as alloromantic as I am asexual and my favourite part of the first book was the romance, so it made me quite sad that there wasn't any of that beautiful underlying romantic plot in here so in that regard I think I would have liked this more if Felicity had been allo! Weird, right? Terrible of me!
That being said, the aro/ace rep was so show more lovely, and since I get grumpy when there are sex scenes ruining perfectly good books, I'm glad that this is a book for the people that grumpy when there are romance scenes! And I related so much to many points.
My favourite aspect of this was Max. Duh. But I think my next favourite part was the criticism of girl hate and the way Johanna demonstrated that girls can be super smart and like looking pretty, too.
This was a lot of fun to listen to while hiking with holes in my feet! Yay holes in my feet! Yay Percy and Monty for being the darn cutest couple! (Yay too many exclamations!) show less
Absolutely lovely romp through the 1700s, featuring three very different and very vivid female leads. Felicity, the POV narrator, is a prickly young lady who keeps being thwarted in her desire to be a university-trained and board-certified doctor. Johanna, Felicity's old friend, was a tomboy child but also likes frilly things; they've had a falling out, but she is soon to marry Felicity's idol. Sim is an African Muslim pirate who may inherit a fleet from her commodore father -- so she's a princess to boot. Mix these very relatable if somewhat-larger-than-life humans with a rollicking adventure plot that can't be predicted, and the result is a very impressive achievement and deliciously easy read from Mackenzi Lee.
(I also think my show more favorite part is either the title, which takes on more and more overtones as the book progresses, or the final author's note, where the author lays out something I get the impression she believes fervently and got very sick of saying. It starts: "Women in historical fiction are often criticized for being girls of today dropped into historical set pieces, inaccurate to their time because of their feminist ideas and independent natures. It's a criticism that has always frustrated me, for it proposes the idea that women throughout time would not see, speak out, or take action against the inequality and injustices they faced simply because they'd never known anything else." Then she spends 8 pages giving the stories of modern-style women living in the 18th century whose stories have been largely forgotten or written out of history, but for whom we have definitive historical evidence that they espoused feminist ideals in the same time period as our heroines do. It's powerful and rousing conclusion that addressed my biggest eyebrow raises during the novel, and it's a fitting crown to an excellent book.)
I picked this book up at the library because it was flagged with "New", "YA", and "LGBT" (nothing explicit or even particularly romance-laden in it, though -- this is self-consciously not a romance), and it had a cover that made me think it'd be lighthearted, and it was thick enough to really get lost in -- and it turns out that strategy worked out very well. It's almost like librarians spend a lot of time considering good books to buy. ;) It also turns out that the same author wrote [The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue], which I have never been inclined to pick up before (but will now), and my not having read the previous novel didn't affect my enjoyment of this one in any way.
Strong endorsement from me if this seems like your kind of book! show less
(I also think my show more favorite part is either the title, which takes on more and more overtones as the book progresses, or the final author's note, where the author lays out something I get the impression she believes fervently and got very sick of saying. It starts: "Women in historical fiction are often criticized for being girls of today dropped into historical set pieces, inaccurate to their time because of their feminist ideas and independent natures. It's a criticism that has always frustrated me, for it proposes the idea that women throughout time would not see, speak out, or take action against the inequality and injustices they faced simply because they'd never known anything else." Then she spends 8 pages giving the stories of modern-style women living in the 18th century whose stories have been largely forgotten or written out of history, but for whom we have definitive historical evidence that they espoused feminist ideals in the same time period as our heroines do. It's powerful and rousing conclusion that addressed my biggest eyebrow raises during the novel, and it's a fitting crown to an excellent book.)
I picked this book up at the library because it was flagged with "New", "YA", and "LGBT" (nothing explicit or even particularly romance-laden in it, though -- this is self-consciously not a romance), and it had a cover that made me think it'd be lighthearted, and it was thick enough to really get lost in -- and it turns out that strategy worked out very well. It's almost like librarians spend a lot of time considering good books to buy. ;) It also turns out that the same author wrote [The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue], which I have never been inclined to pick up before (but will now), and my not having read the previous novel didn't affect my enjoyment of this one in any way.
Strong endorsement from me if this seems like your kind of book! show less
How do I even review this masterpiece?? I cannot put my feelings towards this book into words, but it is perfection and it deserves the entire world! I really truly do not believe any review I write could possibly do this book justice.
Felicty is amazing! She's badass and determined and I love her! She's also really hella flawed. And she has SO MUCH DEVELOPMENT!
The thing is, a large part of what I love so much about Felicity is that she isn't perfect. Not even close in fact. And it makes her feel so, so very real. Also, she doesn't just have the typical YA character flaws. I mean, sure, she's show more impulsive, she makes dumb decisions sometimes, and she can be rather rude. These are all flaws that I see in YA characters all the time.
But while Felicity does have those flaws, she has ones I've rarely (if ever) seen addressed. The way she obviously had a hard time being okay with her brother's sexuality. The way she was shitty to Johanna for being feminine and liking dresses. The way she was ready toexpose the sea dragons to the world for her own gain .
These are all things that made me want to punch Felicity in the face at times. But they're also things that made her feel so real! And they were called out. Each and every one of those things was challenged. Felicity grew and changed and realized her mistakes. He development is some of the best character development I have ever seen, and I applaud Mackenzi Lee for writing it.
Not to mention the new characters were amazing too!
Johanna wasn't personally my absolute favourite, but she was such a badass and I certainly did love her! (Also I adored her devotion to her dog!) Something about her just didn't grab me as much as the other characters is all.
And Sim. SIM. From the very first second she came in, I just KNEW I was going to love her! And I was right. This badass queer muslim pirate girl is MY FAVE! (Well actually Felicity is my fave too, but Sim is just as wonderful!) I just have so much love for Sim. She is a wonderfully developed character and I LOVE HER!
Also the MONTY AND PERCY CAMEOS!!! These two own my entire heart, and I was LIVING for their cameos. They are just as adorable and hilarious as always! I flailed so much when they came in! And there's this one part near the end that I was just DYING with laughter over! If you've read the book you know what part I mean. It was perfection, and Monty was enjoying himself way too much. Oh how I love Monty and Percy.
Speaking of Monty and Percy, don't go into this expecting a book anything like Gentleman's Guide. While YES, there ARE similarities, if you go into this book expecting a hilarious romantic romp across Europe, you're going to be disappointed.
It IS really funny, but not nearly to the same degree as Gentleman's Guide, and it's refreshingly low on romance. (As in, the only real romance is between Monty and Percy, who are small side characters.)
Go into this book looking for a fiercely feminist adventure, friendship, and badass queer girls.
I know a lot of people are comparing this to Gentleman's Guide, which is fair, but personally I don't think they're really comparable. While at a first glance they're very similar books, when you dig deeper they couldn't be more different. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, and I just think that below the surface level, these two books are simply far to different to truly compare.
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy is a beautiful book about feminism, girl power, and chasing your dreams, whereas The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is a rom-com about two gay boys and the struggles they face.
I don't think one book is better than the other. I think they're both incredible books, and they both have such different strengths, and I urge you to pick up this amazing series!
So in summary? Felicity is a flawed aroace queen, Johanna is a sweetie who loves her dog, Sim is feisty and snarky, all three of them are badass and amazing, Monty and Percy are adorable and hilarious, everything about this book was perfection, and did I mention how BADASS everyone is???
This book is an all time favourite, and I love it with all my heart! If you haven't read it (Or Gentleman's Guide!) yet, GO PICK IT UP ASAP! This book truly is spectacular, and I CANNOT recommend it more!
(Also can we just appreciate the scene where Felicity yelled "I'm talking about menstruation, sir!" and scandalized everyone? I adored that scene! 😂😂)
***Initial Reaction, October 4, 2018***
AHHHHHHHHHH!!! AFGDHJGGFHHJFJFGHJHFJKFJGDFHHJHFGJFSGDJHF!!!!! SO GOOD!!! AGHGJGFGGDHHJGGHGFGFDHDFHJGFGDDHF!!! FELICITY IS BADASS AND AMAZING!!! AHHFGDGFHGJFGGFHFGDFSDSDGHJFGDHJHHHHH!!!! I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! RTC. show less
“I've learned not to walk in with pistols drawn, but rather to keep them hidden in my petticoats with a hand surreptitiously upon the heel.”
Felicty is amazing! She's badass and determined and I love her! She's also really hella flawed. And she has SO MUCH DEVELOPMENT!
The thing is, a large part of what I love so much about Felicity is that she isn't perfect. Not even close in fact. And it makes her feel so, so very real. Also, she doesn't just have the typical YA character flaws. I mean, sure, she's show more impulsive, she makes dumb decisions sometimes, and she can be rather rude. These are all flaws that I see in YA characters all the time.
But while Felicity does have those flaws, she has ones I've rarely (if ever) seen addressed. The way she obviously had a hard time being okay with her brother's sexuality. The way she was shitty to Johanna for being feminine and liking dresses. The way she was ready to
These are all things that made me want to punch Felicity in the face at times. But they're also things that made her feel so real! And they were called out. Each and every one of those things was challenged. Felicity grew and changed and realized her mistakes. He development is some of the best character development I have ever seen, and I applaud Mackenzi Lee for writing it.
“In the company of women like this— sharp-edged as raw diamonds but with soft hands and hearts, not strong in spite of anything but powerful because of everything— I feel invincible. Every chink and rut and battering wind has made us tough and brave and impossible to strike down. We are mountains— or perhaps temples, with foundations that could outlast time itself.”
Not to mention the new characters were amazing too!
Johanna wasn't personally my absolute favourite, but she was such a badass and I certainly did love her! (Also I adored her devotion to her dog!) Something about her just didn't grab me as much as the other characters is all.
"Every time you rolled your eyes and every little smart remark you made about how silly it was for girls to care about their looks. You refused to let me--or anyone!--like books and silks. Outdoors and cosmetics. You stopped taking me seriously when I stopped being the kind of woman you thought I had to be to be considered intelligent and strong." ~ Johanna
And Sim. SIM. From the very first second she came in, I just KNEW I was going to love her! And I was right. This badass queer muslim pirate girl is MY FAVE! (Well actually Felicity is my fave too, but Sim is just as wonderful!) I just have so much love for Sim. She is a wonderfully developed character and I LOVE HER!
Also the MONTY AND PERCY CAMEOS!!! These two own my entire heart, and I was LIVING for their cameos. They are just as adorable and hilarious as always! I flailed so much when they came in! And there's this one part near the end that I was just DYING with laughter over! If you've read the book you know what part I mean. It was perfection, and Monty was enjoying himself way too much. Oh how I love Monty and Percy.
"'Are you all right?' Percy asks, which should have been my brother's first question, though I'm not shocked it wasn't."
Speaking of Monty and Percy, don't go into this expecting a book anything like Gentleman's Guide. While YES, there ARE similarities, if you go into this book expecting a hilarious romantic romp across Europe, you're going to be disappointed.
It IS really funny, but not nearly to the same degree as Gentleman's Guide, and it's refreshingly low on romance. (As in, the only real romance is between Monty and Percy, who are small side characters.)
Go into this book looking for a fiercely feminist adventure, friendship, and badass queer girls.
I know a lot of people are comparing this to Gentleman's Guide, which is fair, but personally I don't think they're really comparable. While at a first glance they're very similar books, when you dig deeper they couldn't be more different. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, and I just think that below the surface level, these two books are simply far to different to truly compare.
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy is a beautiful book about feminism, girl power, and chasing your dreams, whereas The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is a rom-com about two gay boys and the struggles they face.
I don't think one book is better than the other. I think they're both incredible books, and they both have such different strengths, and I urge you to pick up this amazing series!
So in summary? Felicity is a flawed aroace queen, Johanna is a sweetie who loves her dog, Sim is feisty and snarky, all three of them are badass and amazing, Monty and Percy are adorable and hilarious, everything about this book was perfection, and did I mention how BADASS everyone is???
“Because women don't have to be men's equals to be considered contenders; they have to be better. That's the lie of it all. You have to be better to prove yourself worthy of being equal.”
This book is an all time favourite, and I love it with all my heart! If you haven't read it (Or Gentleman's Guide!) yet, GO PICK IT UP ASAP! This book truly is spectacular, and I CANNOT recommend it more!
(Also can we just appreciate the scene where Felicity yelled "I'm talking about menstruation, sir!" and scandalized everyone? I adored that scene! 😂😂)
***Initial Reaction, October 4, 2018***
AHHHHHHHHHH!!! AFGDHJGGFHHJFJFGHJHFJKFJGDFHHJHFGJFSGDJHF!!!!! SO GOOD!!! AGHGJGFGGDHHJGGHGFGFDHDFHJGFGDDHF!!! FELICITY IS BADASS AND AMAZING!!! AHHFGDGFHGJFGGFHFGDFSDSDGHJFGDHJHHHHH!!!! I LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! RTC. show less
There is a lot to praise in this book, but I'm writing this review because it's one of those books where I didn't realize how much I enjoyed it until I was finished with it. I was dreading the ending as it approached - there's plenty of narrative tension, but additionally, I was sure we were headed for something that was deeply unsatisfying in one way or another because of so many factors - the colonial and sexist mindsets of the various characters, the prominence of an aspec character (when so many stories go poorly for aspec characters), but it's been months since I finished and I just can't stop thinking about how satisfying this book was. It's one of those that really sells the happy ending well, it doesn't seem too fanciful or show more convenient or coincidental, partially because it's different than the happy ending that the protagonist was planning and working towards. It's a good one and it stuck with me. I'd say I was wishing for a sequel if I didn't think that saying that is a huge jinx. show less
I loved The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, and so I was excited to hear Felicity was getting her book. Then, lo and behold, the only part of Felicity's book I liked was when Monty and Percy (the leads in A Gentleman's Guide for those who did not read that book) popped up.
It turned out Felicity was insufferable. She was mean, preachy, superior, judgmental and 100% humorless. The weird, part? Not one of those things was the worst thing about her character. No, the biggest problem was the absolute and utter disregard of history. I like a plucky girl as much as the next person, but that person has to have had some chance of existing in her time. Books that were written near the time the stories were set show independent girls who show more strove for things that were possible (though not the norm) in their time (see eg, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and for nonfiction A Vindication of the Right of Women.) No woman at the time this was set could possibly have had the thoughts, goals, reactions of Felicity, or Johanna, or Sim because they were unimaginable. There is a joke about drawing penises with hats on them on people, like they were all sitting around watching 10 Things I Hate About You the night before. Also they bandied about the word "penis", a word which a well-bred woman at the time would never have uttered and might not even have known. It would be like a Cro-Mag-non woman fantasizing about Netflix Originals. There is no context for those goals or that knowledge. Lee dropped 20th century women (essentially these were unwilling 50's future housewives) into the 19th (18th?) century. I hate when writers do that. Its so lazy and encourages laziness in readers who believe this junk. (I will note here that the ridiculousness and historical inaccuracy of characters extended to all the characters male and female. Alexander was like an evildoer on Scooby Doo. Darn those meddling girls!)
This is pure YA fantasy. If you read it as that maybe it works. I don't like fantasy or YA much so take that into account Also, dragons? Puhleez. I listened to the audio, and the reader was really excellent. If I had read this in print I think it would have been a a DNF. show less
It turned out Felicity was insufferable. She was mean, preachy, superior, judgmental and 100% humorless. The weird, part? Not one of those things was the worst thing about her character. No, the biggest problem was the absolute and utter disregard of history. I like a plucky girl as much as the next person, but that person has to have had some chance of existing in her time. Books that were written near the time the stories were set show independent girls who show more strove for things that were possible (though not the norm) in their time (see eg, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, and for nonfiction A Vindication of the Right of Women.) No woman at the time this was set could possibly have had the thoughts, goals, reactions of Felicity, or Johanna, or Sim because they were unimaginable. There is a joke about drawing penises with hats on them on people, like they were all sitting around watching 10 Things I Hate About You the night before. Also they bandied about the word "penis", a word which a well-bred woman at the time would never have uttered and might not even have known. It would be like a Cro-Mag-non woman fantasizing about Netflix Originals. There is no context for those goals or that knowledge. Lee dropped 20th century women (essentially these were unwilling 50's future housewives) into the 19th (18th?) century. I hate when writers do that. Its so lazy and encourages laziness in readers who believe this junk. (I will note here that the ridiculousness and historical inaccuracy of characters extended to all the characters male and female. Alexander was like an evildoer on Scooby Doo. Darn those meddling girls!)
This is pure YA fantasy. If you read it as that maybe it works. I don't like fantasy or YA much so take that into account Also, dragons? Puhleez. I listened to the audio, and the reader was really excellent. If I had read this in print I think it would have been a a DNF. show less
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are not the stuff of heroes
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A highly dowered girl was faced by a great venture, a great quest. The life before her was an uncharted sea. She had to find herself, to find her way, to find her work.
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- I have just taken an overly large bite of iced bun when Callum slices his finger off.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)... Our best is all we can do, and all we can hold on to is each other.
And, zounds, that is more than enough.
Yours,
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