She hits it out of the park with her over-the-top, tongue in cheek style. Kellgren's narration definitely made the book even funnier. (She also narrated Austenland which is one of my very favorite audiobooks). The audiobook of My Lady Jane was so stickin' fantastic. I thought it was really fun how they were so self-conscious and meta about the telling of the tale. I love, I mean really love, all the narrator asides. My Lady Jane was written by three authors, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows, and they obviously had a fantastic time writing this book together. ("Part II: In Which We Throw History Completely Out the Window." Haha.) I didn't know what exactly the authors had changed when I started the book, and I liked that way because when I found out the central premise in the first chapter or so I was highly amused. But this isn't the story that you read in the history books. My Lady Jane is the story of Jane Gray who ruled England for nine days after the death of Edward VI (Henry VIII's son). There were many laugh-out-loud moments in the reading of this book. Probably because it's been so long since I've read anything by Jasper Fforde. I haven't had this much fun reading a book in a long time.
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