A review by skconaghan
My Lady Jane by Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand

adventurous funny informative lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Finally read the first in this series, not that they need read in any particular order as each story is distinctly a thing of its own.

I appreciate this imaginative rewriting of history into something a less blood-thirsty humanity might have preferred. If only…

These are all gaffs and romance, full of dramatic irony and happy endings, minus all the bloody unpalatable truths of that violent path of kings and princesses of the Tudor and Stuart lineage we know from real history. Here we see that tragic and regrettable story (through the lens of a 21st Century perspective) as we might have written it, had we been given the chance. 

It is a thrilling adventure of multiple blossoming romances among the shape-shifting nobility, caricatured scheming dukes and interfering conniving mothers. But our young heroes avert wars and change the course of history in ways that leave you thinking long after the last page is turned just what might the world have been like had things happened this way instead…