My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies, #1) in Crazy Challenge Connection

Nov 21, 2018 Ashleigh rated it it was amazing

Shelves: buddy-read, romance, series-books

My Lady Jane is a humourous retelling of the story of Lady Jane Grey, who became Queen of England for 9 days after her cousin Edward died of the Affliction at the age of 16 years old, before having her head chopped off. But what if he didn't die? What if Lady Jane wasn't beheaded? What if Lady Jane was married off to a man who spends the hours of daylight as a horse? Wait.. what?

This book shouldn't work. It shouldn't be funny and shouldn't be a pageturner, but for the life of me, I couldn't ...more

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Jul 21, 2018 Chaitra rated it it was amazing

Shelves: alternate-history, romance, humor, young-adult, historical-fiction, royalty

This was so unexpectedly hilarious. I saw this book when it came out, but somehow it didn't pull me in. But then my library got My Plain Jane and that's when I really looked at this series, and this book. And it's awesome and bonkers and if it wasn't enough that the authors gleefully play football with English history, at one point one character tells another: "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries". Sold. ...more

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Jun 27, 2016 Cathie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: humor, 2016-releases, young-adult, fantasy, 2016-reads, owlcrate, choiceawards2016

3.5 stars. Cute love story set in England during Lady Jane Grey's time. That is where all historical accuracy ends and fiction and fantasy take over. A good story line (did I mention cute) and some funny one liners but it was very much like watching the Brady Bunch, ie, cleaned up for under PG-13 readers and, yes, cute.

The best line of all was in the dedication prior to the title page:
"For everyone who knows there was enough roonm for Leonardo DiCaprio on that door.
And for England. We're really ...more

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