*4.5


Albeit My Lady Jane is actually a really cheesy, borderline fan fiction about a lot of dead, 500 year old monarchs, this was surprisingly good. I love when authors twist history like this, making it their first own and adding or subtracting things to it (even though it’s basically fan fiction). I’ve never read anything from any of these authors, except Cynthia Hand which I actually DNF’ed a book from last year. But overall, this was really really good.


This book has cured my reading slump. This God awful reading slump which I have been in since the end of December. I saw this book on my shelf yesterday and I said “why the hell not”. My Lady Jane took my not even a day to read. I was completely hooked on this story, these characters, the plot. Their wasn’t one part in this book I didn’t want to stop reading.


I loved these characters, and I loved the plot. I loved the writing, the stupid puns, the magic system. I’m a history nerd. I have always loved history. The Tudor/Elizabethan periods are my favorite historical time periods ever. The way the monarchs ruled, the way the family always ultimately ended up betraying each other, King Henry VIII being an absolute sleaze and borderline insane? The politics and the church. All of it is so so interesting. The way these three authors introduced their own history and interwoven their own tales was so interesting and unique.


I feeling a bit lazy so I’m not really gonna talk further, but overall this was really really good. Definitely “getting-out-of-a-reading-slump-worthy.”