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The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)

by Olivia Waite (Goodreads Author)

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Reading for the 5th time

read in June 2019

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Kate Long said: " Stars: 5 Stars
Format: Digital

The ARC of this book made the rounds among my friends who ended up singing their praises of it, so between that and the synopsis, I preordered this months ago. I may have stayed up until midnight waiting for it to drop Stars: 5 Stars
Format: Digital

The ARC of this book made the rounds among my friends who ended up singing their praises of it, so between that and the synopsis, I preordered this months ago. I may have stayed up until midnight waiting for it to drop and started reading it right away. Not a whole lot of sleep happened. I LOVED this book.

Trigger Warning: there is Domestic Abuse but not shown in detail on the page. I might have missed if it was physical but it was definitely psychological. The abuser is dead and gone when we are reading, but you do see the after effects of the years of being subjected to it.

Thoughts:
- OMG science AND art! Lucy is an Astronomer and loves it, she has an obvious love of stars and math and the natural sciences and Countess Moth is a wonderfully skilled embroiderer
- Speaking of Countess Moth, I LOVED her character. She really grew during the story and I found her just as interesting and awesome as the badass astronomer Lucy
- A wlw Historical Romance, not nearly enough of these out there
- I wanted to strangle Lucy’s brother
- I also wanted to strangle Pris
- Also most of the Polite Science Guild
- Looking back, it’s very good I was not a character in this or it would be a very different story
- Has interesting discussions about art verses science and what is considered art and who are artists
- The last hurtle made me a little grrr and I thought it would have lasted longer but it didn’t go the way I thought it would and that was a delight
- I thought Lucy was a perfect match for Catherine. She was younger than Catherine but older in some ways and they complimented each other well
- The cover art is SO PRETTY (I maaaaay have preordered the print version already so I can have a physical copy of it *grabby hands*)

Overall, I deeply LOVED this book. I don’t miss any of the sleep lost reading this all night and am holding myself back from rereading it RIGHT NOW (I promised myself I could once the print edition comes out.) Because of this book, I am actually moving up more historical wlw romances up my TBR. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! ...more "

Nov 24, 2024 11:17PM · see review