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My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1)

Cynthia Hand,

Brodi Ashton

Start date: September 22, 2016

Finish date: September 30, 2016

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Aug 04, 2017 Lesa Divine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-a-thon, read-it, favorite-list

I really enjoyed this book.
I was laughing, shaking my head in thought at how the book was written.
Love how it was written as the narrator talks to the reader and not at the reader. Nicely done.

King Edward is dying. Best to make Jane his cousin the Queen.
But there's a reason to this and I don't wanna spoil it. Love Jane as a character she's very memorable she speaks her mind. She's a bookworm that loves knowledge.
She married G as her cousin requested in order for her to have kids as she's Queen. ...more

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Aug 26, 2017 Susan rated it it was amazing

FANTASTIC book!!! I loved the part of the narrator, it totally makes the whole book. I love Edward, Jane and G as well. It was written so wonderfully and I loved the shape shifting that happens in this book. Was such a great story. Some was true to the actual history but the narrator lets you know when history ends and the fiction begins. I am sad that in real life Lady Jane is beheaded after 9 days of being queen but love how they made her fictionally alive and happy. Fun book and so easy to re ...more

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Jul 30, 2016 Andrea rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-fantasy, read-sorted, favorites, fiction-humor, fiction-historical, 2016-chunkster

Okay, so I totally gave into reading a YA book, even though I have proclaimed before that I would rather chew on tinfoil. It's too bad that the only things that bugged me about My Lady Jane were the typical YA tropes. In the last third the novel practically drowned in "the feels" (or whatever kids these days call it), where Jane and G kept constantly doubting the other's love, and whined, and cried, and turned jealous. I would also rather describe Jane as bullheaded, and not progressively femini ...more

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