Fellow Gentleman’s Guide fans, we just keep getting luckier and luckier!
We’re officially getting a movie adaptation, courtesy of HBO Max, AND a third novel, The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandals and Shipwrecks, featuring a new Montague Sibling to love! It takes place years after the events of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, and stars Monty and Felicity’s younger brother Adrian who just learns of the existence of his siblings.
We CANNOT WAIT for more scandalous and magical adventures with the Montague Siblings! And if you also need a refresher on the important things to remember about this hysterical series, we’ve got you covered with a quick rundown.
The Gentleman’s Guide Series Recap
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
📚 Book One: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
The Irresistible Charm
Monty is a flirtatious rogue who says things like “I’d fall in love with me, if I met me.” He’ll have you constantly LOLing and his rather ridiculous hijinks land him in quite a few tricky situations, like that time he ended up running through the gardens of Versailles without a stitch of clothing on…
The Love Story
Monty has what he thinks is an unrequited crush on his best friend Percy and their will-they-won’t-they romance crackles with chemistry and the most delightful banter. When they finally declare their love for each other we could. not. stop. smiling. Last we saw them, Monty had given up his inheritance and was living happily on a beach in Santorini with Percy—which is exactly where the novella The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky picks up, so check that book out for even more swoon-worthy romance!
Felicity the Feminist Icon
Monty’s sister Felicity can often be found rolling her eyes at Monty’s outlandish behavior while pouring over her books, which we fully support because she’s defying gender norms and determined to one day be a doctor. Monty and Percy would have been completely lost, and possibly even dead, without her. If you haven’t already caught up on Felicity’s story in The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, what are you waiting for?!
Thievery, Highway Robbers, and Pirates
Their trip across the continent goes completely off the rails when Monty steals what he thinks is a useless trinket, but turns out to be a highly valuable object, from a Duke’s room at Versailles. The trio are then chased across Europe by highwaymen and picked up by pirates-turned-allies.
The Hunt for a Cure
Percy has epilepsy and his family wants to ship him off to an insane asylum, which of course Monty is desperate to prevent. So when he discovers that the object he stole contains a key to unlock a chest containing a magical cure-all, he’s determined to find it. But in a fight with the Duke, the cure is destroyed and Monty ends up losing an ear. But it’s okay because Monty and Percy still have each other and they decide to run away from their families and societal expectations and just be together.
📚 Book Two: The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
The Rejected Proposal
When the book opens up, Felicity is working in a bakery in Scotland since she can’t get into medical school simply because she is a woman. The bakery owner proposes to her but she refuses because she has no interest in being tied down by marriage and flees to London to stay with Monty and Percy.
A Pirates Life for Her
Felicity meets a pirate named Sim who secures her passage on board captain Scipio’s ship. Felicity want to meet the famous Dr. Platt and convince him to let her be his research assistant, but he does not live up to Felicity’s expectations. Dr. Platt is about to marry Felicity’s former childhood friend Johanna but when she runs away from the wedding, Johanna, Felicity, and Sim end up on a wild adventure across Europe filled with magical objects and mystical sea creatures!
A Brighter Future
Felicity is asexual and it’s an extraordinary journey to see her come to terms with her own identity and her relationships with the people around her. And at the end of the book she is able to let go of her determination to attend medical school in England and pursues her dreams a new way by sailing off to Algiers with Sim to continue studying with the surgeons there.
And now it’s time to dive into the final Montague Siblings book!
About The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandals and Shipwrecks
Return to the enchanting world of the Montague siblings in the finale to the New York Times bestselling and Stonewall Honor-winning series, featuring a teenage Adrian Montague as he desperately seeks the now adult Monty and Felicity—the older siblings he never knew he had.
Adrian Montague has a bright future. The sole heir to his father’s estate, he is an up and coming political writer and engaged to an activist who challenges and inspires him. But most young Lords aren’t battling the debilitating anxiety Adrian secretly lives with, or the growing fear that it might consume him and all he hopes to accomplish. In the wake of his mother’s unexpected death, Adrian is also concerned people will find out that he has the mental illness she struggled with for years.
When a newly found keepsake of hers—a piece of a broken spyglass—comes into Adrian’s possession, he’s thrust into the past and finds himself face to face with an older brother he never knew he had. Henry “Monty” Montague has been living quietly in London for years, and his sudden appearance sends Adrian on a quest to unravel family secrets that only the spyglass can answer.
In pursuit of answers about the relic, the brothers chart a course to locate their sister Felicity. But as they travel between the pirate courts of Rabat, Portuguese islands, the canals of Amsterdam, and into unknown Artic waters, the Montague siblings are thrown into one final adventure as they face a ghostly legend that threatens their whole family.