My Lady Jane

Cynthia Hand · Brodi Ashton · Jodi Meadows

Jun 2016 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

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.

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

And don't miss the authors' next fun read, My Plain Jane!

Ratings and reviews

This alternate universe history of the Tudor regime is a comical masterpiece by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton. I have read their books before, and I find that this collaboration was awesome in the fact that it combines their writing prowess into a book that is filled with horse puns, random author narration and a general levity to the grim original. The story begins with King Edward dying, of ‘The Affliction’, which I assume meant tuberculosis in those days. The authors have actually changed the whole Christian-Protestant thing into a war between Shape-shifters and humans, the former being persecuted by the latter. To ensure that the shifters are not victimized by Mary’s burning rage for them, Edward hands over the crown to Jane, after marrying her off to the second son of his most trusted advisor. There is naturally some conspiracy afoot, and after Jane gets crowned, a host of suspicious events occur. Needless to say, as this is an alternate universe, liberties are taken with history – in a way that you will love it. Told from three perspectives – Jane, Edward and Gifford (Jane’s husband), as well as spontaneous input from the authors themselves, the storytelling is very vivid and lively. I could very easily picture this being a movie, and the characters are all so loveable. There is Jane, the eternal bookworm, who resents being married off to a seemingly promiscuous man, who turns into a horse (hence the horse puns) during the daytime. Gifford, for his part, adores her but is also unsure about how to tell her the truth about himself (he was not promiscuous) and how to manage his curse. Edward just wants to kiss a girl (preferably with tongue) and the crown kind of chafes his head. The three of them make an amusing trio and the addition of Gracie, the Scottish girl only made it more awesome. The mythology of the world was well-established, for a stand-alone. Overall, this is a book you should not miss!

IT SO GOOD!! IT IS TOTALLY WORTH READING:)

It is so beautiful, the love, the passion!🐼🐼🐳🐳

About the author

The Lady Janies are made up of New York Times bestselling authors Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows. They first met in 2012, when their publishers sent them on a book tour together, and they hit it off so well they decided to write My Lady Jane so they could go on book tours together all the time. Between the three of them they’ve written more than twenty published novels, a bunch of novellas, a handful of short stories, and a couple of really bad poems. They’re friends. They’re writers. They’re fixing history by rewriting one sad story at a time. Learn more at ladyjanies.com.

The Lady Janies are made up of New York Times bestselling authors Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows. They first met in 2012, when their publishers sent them on a book tour together, and they hit it off so well they decided to write My Lady Jane so they could go on book tours together all the time. Between the three of them they’ve written more than twenty published novels, a bunch of novellas, a handful of short stories, and a couple of really bad poems. They’re friends. They’re writers. They’re fixing history by rewriting one sad story at a time. Learn more at ladyjanies.com.

The Lady Janies are made up of New York Times bestselling authors Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows. They first met in 2012, when their publishers sent them on a book tour together, and they hit it off so well they decided to write My Lady Jane so they could go on book tours together all the time. Between the three of them they’ve written more than twenty published novels, a bunch of novellas, a handful of short stories, and a couple of really bad poems. They’re friends. They’re writers. They’re fixing history by rewriting one sad story at a time. Learn more at ladyjanies.com.