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New York Times Bestseller * Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of the Year * Bustle Best Young Adult Book of the Year * YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
This comical, fantastical, romantical, New York Times bestselling, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey is “an uproarious historical fantasy that’s not to be missed” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind YA fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help.
At sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But those trifling problems aren’t for Jane to worry about. Jane gets to be Queen of England.
Like that could go wrong.
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Community Reviews
The writing style of this story annoyed me for sooooo many reasons. Namely, the CONSTANT interjections by the damn narrator! Throughout the entire book there are these comments from the narrator (in parentheses) that yank me out of the story, are annoying beyond reason, and have no purpose other than to take away all suspense and interest from the reader! Itâs beyond annoying! Itâs infuriating!
The second reason this book was so annoying because of the god-awful lightheartedness with which it was written! This is about conspiracies of the royal court, but it has the tonality of an adorable, fluffy, (gag-worthy) contemporary. The gravity of the situations the characters are in are completely lacking in tension because of the way this was written in. What a waste.
Unoriginal
God. Where do I even start with this particular comment other than to say: I hope they got full rights from the original creators of the material they used in this book because otherwise itâs referred to as stealing. And from whom did they use material, you ask? Let me start a list: Shakespeare, Monty Pythonâs Holy Grail, The Princess Bride, Alice in Wonderland. Are you serious? You have three authors working on this book and you canât even come up with your OWN lines? And you have to use someone elseâs very easily recognizable lines, at that?! Not only did they steal lines, but they also stole fundamental aspects from them and other movies, like Tangled. For crimeny sakeâs, this is just pathetic. (And also very infuriating.)
Wait⦠What are we doing now?
At some point in the book, I wasnât sure if I was reading a historical fantasy piece written by three authors or an awful piece of fanfiction written by a high school student. Why? Because of the randomness with which the plot would suddenly turn. OH! And the inaccuracies of travel time. Yes, yes. I get that this was an embellishment of the original history, but⦠does that also mean itâs allowed to forego all common, accepted believability of story telling? I donât think so.
What is pacing?
This book is definitely one of those where the authors had no idea what pacing was and just tried to cram as much in as possible. Why? Because thatâs literally how it reads. Everything happens SUPER fast with hardly any breathing room and yet the characters manage to progress and develop over the span of like⦠two weeks or some unlikely short amount of time. And the rushing got even worse towards the end. For being such a long book, I would have expected some semblance of pacing or⦠realism.
GBWR
o.o Where do I even begin? 1) The acronym is totally a steal from The Princess Bride. 2) This whole section of the story is LITERAL garbage, has no purpose, and is so OBVIOUSLY a last second throw-in because there is NO WAY two boys with very little strength and wherewithall kill a bear âthe size of the Cliffs of Doverâ in less than 3 pages. I call bullshit. 3) Really, though? What was the point of any of this scene? Just⦠no.
Frying Pan
Really?! The frying pan?! You had to steal the frying pan from Tangled?! I just canât even anymore with this shit. And donât try to tell me that it wasnât stolen from Tangled. What other story in the history of stories has thought frying pans would make good weapons. OH! And one of the male characters even uses the same to response to Jane using the frying pan as Flynn Ryder does in Tangled. GAH!!!
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