4.5/5 Stars: ‘The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy’ is a Young Adult, LGBT+ Historical Fiction by Mackenzi Lee; ‘The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy’ is an empowering and energetic adventure that celebrates friendship between women. This entertaining sequel does not quite have the wit and wackiness of the first book, but its more serious tone still leads us on an exciting adventure. ‘The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy’ shifts narrators so that now we follow Felicity in her quest to take her rightful place in a male-dominated world. She fights for equal access to education and against being constantly underestimated or seen as valuable only as far as she makes herself desirable to men. Felicity is a strong, girl-power role model who embodies themes about how women deserve to occupy space in the world and how their value is not related to how desirable they are, about studying and learning for its own sake to deepen your own understanding, and about finding your own way instead of trying to shove yourself into pigeonholes others have made for you.