Book Review: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows

My Lady Jane (The Lady Janies #1) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

Genre: Young Adult Fiction (Historical Fantasy Romance)
Date Published: June 7, 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins

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.

My Lady Jane is the first book in the My Lady Janies series by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows. This book was so much fun to read, and I much prefer it to how things really went down. If only life could be like a book, right? This story is told from multiple perspectives, and you fully get to know these characters along with the world around them. This book is not about being historically accurate. The authors are very honest about that, and you can just tell they had a blast writing this book. I highly recommend the audio version as well. The narrator truly brought these characters to life and knocked my enjoyment of this book up even more! It was such a clever and fun story, and I'm anxious to get my hands on the next book.

We're the authors of the young adult novels MY LADY JANE, MY PLAIN JANE, MY CALAMITY JANE, MY CONTRARY MARY, MY IMAGINARY MARY, and MY SALTY MARY. 

Our group is made up of Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows—all authors of our own separate young adult books. We met on a group book tour back in 2012, became fast friends, and initially came up with idea for the Lady Janies books as a way for us to be able to spend more time hanging out and traveling together. 

Between the three of us we've written thirty novels, a bunch of novellas, a handful of short stories, and a couple of really bad poems, but we have the most fun working on our books together. 

We're friends. We're writers. We're fixing history by rewriting one sad story at a time.

To learn more about The Lady Janies and theirbbooks, visit their website. You can also find them on Facebook, and Instagram.

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