My Lady Jane
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4.1 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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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.
And don't miss the authors' next fun read, My Plain Jane!
Shapeshifters and Secrets: Jane’s new husband isn’t just a stranger—he’s a horse. At least, from sunrise to sunset.Enemies to Lovers Romance: He thinks she’s a bookish spinster with unsightly red hair. She thinks he’s an arrogant philanderer with a terrible nose. They’re both kind of right.Witty Banter: Get ready for a royal conspiracy, a reluctant queen, and a whole lot of hilarious, fast-paced dialogue that turns Tudor England on its head.Alternate History with a Twist: This isn’t your stuffy history textbook. It’s a story full of animal magic where the tragic tale of the Nine-Day Queen gets the happy ending it deserves.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hand (the Unearthly series), Ashton (the Everneath series), and Meadows (the Orphan Queen series) clearly had a ball working on this joyous rewrite of the story of Lady Jane Grey and King Edward VI, and readers will have just as much fun with it. The authors follow history to the point of tragedy, then toss it aside to allow love and good to triumph. One significant tweak is the creation of a shape-shifting people called E ians, such as Jane's new husband, Lord Gifford Dudley, who spends his days as a horse and his nights as a man. This version of England is full of E ians, and Edward's power-hungry sister Mary (aka Bloody Mary) is one of the Verities who want to purge the country of them. Alternating third-person narration scrolls smoothly among Edward, Jane, and Gifford in chapters packed with hilarious banter, authorial asides, and polite avoidance of nudity as characters shift into and out of animal forms at inopportune moments. It's an uproarious historical fantasy that's not to be missed. Ages 13 up.
