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Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

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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Again with the Eðians!

My Contrary Mary (Mary, #1) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

July 8, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 15/30 Thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins for the ARC! It has not affected the content of my review. I have just finished this and it was glorious. I didn’t know we’d be returning to the same world that their first book was set in! I’ve missed those Eðians. You can read this without having read My Lady Jane first, but I would reccomend doing it anyway because that book is wonderful. That makes this book an unofficial sequel. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: alternate history, ARCs, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows, Jodi Meadows, LGBTQIA, Mary, my contrary mary, narfna, synthetic voice audio, YA, ya fantasy, Young Adult

narfna's CBR13 Review No:95 · Genres: Audiobooks, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: alternate history, ARCs, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows, Jodi Meadows, LGBTQIA, Mary, my contrary mary, narfna, synthetic voice audio, YA, ya fantasy, Young Adult ·
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