After sitting around in prison for a bit and after a trial, she and her husband were executed). (Since my British history was getting rusty, I looked up a quick synopsis on Wikipedia before I started – to save you the arduous task of Googling it yourself, the basic things you need to know are that Lady Jane Grey was cousin to King Edward VI, who was the son of Henry the Eighth and Jane Seymour, and that when Edward died, Lady Jane Grey was made queen and lasted an entire nine days before she was accused of treason and Mary (Bloody Mary) was named queen. The story is based on Lady Jane Grey, which, if you know anything about her, is not exactly a promising setting for a hilarious, side-splitting story. I knew immediately I was going to love every second. And she is just THE best narrator ever (just as good as Jim Dale, who reads the Harry Potter series, in my opinion).Īnd she was the PERFECT pick for this book. I’d only passed about two house before I had to pause and confirm that the narrator was Katherine Kellgren.īack when I was commuting to and from my elementary school libraries in Boston, I drove about 30 minutes each way and I spent much of the second half of the year listening to the Bloody Jack series, which she narrated. It had so many rave reviews, especially for the My Lady Jane audio version, that I downloaded it almost immediately and started listening on my morning run. (Big thanks to everyone who suggested it on this summer’s edition of Tell Me What to Read). For me, there’s nothing better than reading a book that I can recommend far and wide.
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