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Come for Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace, stay for PAN (Practical Automaton Number One).

My Imaginary Mary (Mary, #2) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows

April 21, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

Still not as good as the first Lady Janie book. A lot of this made no sense, and anachronisms were flying around willy-nilly, but I had a good time. My Imaginary Mary is what you get when you mix light fantasy (there are fairies! and Mary Godwin (Shelley) is one! (different kind of fairy than you’d expect)), alternate history (what if Mary met Ada Lovelace?), and a truly ridiculous sensibility (they invent the name Peter Pan for some reason?) with egregious unconcern for historical accuracy. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, alternate history, audiobooks, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows, historical fiction, Jodi Meadows, Mary, my imaginary mary, speculative, the lady janies, YA, Young Adult

narfna's CBR15 Review No:46 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, alternate history, audiobooks, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows, historical fiction, Jodi Meadows, Mary, my imaginary mary, speculative, the lady janies, YA, Young Adult ·
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Read this for all the sick Mr. Rochester burns.

August 2, 2018 by narfna 3 Comments

Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #2 out of 11 I didn’t like this one as much as My Lady Jane (mostly because it wasn’t as funny), but overall I still had a really fun time listening to it. I mean, really, the standards were ridiculously high, first of all because I do think the first book was just plain funnier, but also because a) They had to live up to that all that funny and maybe the story they were telling this time […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, fiona hardingham, humor, Jodi Meadows, my plain jane, narfna, parody, retellings, the lady janies, YA Romance, Young Adult

narfna's CBR10 Review No:89 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, fiona hardingham, humor, Jodi Meadows, my plain jane, narfna, parody, retellings, the lady janies, YA Romance, Young Adult ·
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For Everyone Who Knows There Was Enough Room For Leonardo DiCaprio on That Door

May 15, 2018 by Emmalita 4 Comments

Narfna recommended this to me as an audiobook some time ago. I have finally picked it up, and it is a goddamn delight. Seriously. It is a rambunctious blend of alternate history, YA, and romance. It starts with an apology to England for what the authors were about to do to history. It’s important that you don’t know too much about how the history is alternate going in. I started laughing pretty quickly, and surprise was part of the delight. If you know anything about […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, History, Young Adult Tagged With: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, katherine kellgren, My Lady Jane, the lady janies

Emmalita's CBR10 Review No:18 · Genres: Audiobooks, History, Young Adult · Tags: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, katherine kellgren, My Lady Jane, the lady janies ·
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Don’t read the summary (it’s weird), just read the book. You can’t summarize the wackiness that is this book.

November 29, 2017 by narfna 2 Comments

I bought this book in a $4.95 Audible sale a while back and then just sort of abandoned it, for almost a year. Why did I do that? No idea. I had this fun little book just waiting for me all this time, and I just kept going about my life. Okay, maybe I do have some idea why. The summary of this book both intimidated me and made me go, “Hwah?” Let me break it down for you. Intimidation because: the line of succession […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, History, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: alternate history, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, historical fiction, humor, Jodi Meadows, katherine kellgren, My Lady Jane, narfna, the lady janies, Young Adult

narfna's CBR9 Review No:97 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, History, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: alternate history, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, historical fiction, humor, Jodi Meadows, katherine kellgren, My Lady Jane, narfna, the lady janies, Young Adult ·
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