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14-5 Sep 25 (audiobook)
Silly but very fun YA alternative history depicting the three children of Henry VIII and Lady Jane Grey. Unlike the recent TV series (of which I have only watched one episode but will now resume), this is perfectly suitable for my history-loving 10 year old. I loved the elements of magic and that [spoiler alert], unlike the true history, many of my favourites get happy endings.

A lovely break from my Booker reading.

Childress definitely has some interesting insights, e.g. starting off with the water-sewage systems or metallurgy of ancient cultures. Then you keep on wondering if they had those advanced technologies, why not other ones like flying or computers as well. Of course there are a lot of artefacts worldwide that cannot be explained by now, but I am not sure if the lost culture of Atlantis can be the master key for everything because then you can‘t…

Was this prequel to the American Royals series in any way necessary? No, it wasn‘t. But I love being in the world of the Washingtons, so I‘m not mad about it! 😂

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This installment dealt a bit less with dragon naturalism and more with being an adventure in the jungle, but it was still a delight to read. Lady Trent continues to be such a pleasure to follow; her insights are wise, she is genuine and honest with her readers, and I just adore all the character growth she went through, offscreen and onscreen. Todd Lockwood's artwork is as amazing as ever. I have so much love for this series.

It‘s been 3 years so my memory of book one is a bit fuzzy but I didn‘t feel like rereading to continue so I just jumped right into book 2.

At about 50 pages in I realized that I really don‘t care about the characters and couldn‘t care less about what happens to them.

So here‘s to another DNF and another series off the shelves.

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77/100 What an amazing book!! I can't believe it took me so long to read this series, I'm kicking myself. Jasper Fforde never disappoints, his writing is so clever, so witty and just fun to read. It's a crazy idea, being able to enter works of fiction, but he makes it plausible and exciting. I've never read Jane Eyre, but I like the new ending better too 5 🌟 read. #Read2025 #SeriesLove2025

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This series has been a total guilty pleasure! So much like a soap opera…but this was a good end to the series!

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I rooted for Rin and overall loved how morally grey she felt. There were several secondary characters that weren't really fleshed out.

This book was brutal, even hard to read for all the cruelty. I think atmosphere was well created but not pleasant.

There was a lot of action, there weren't many slow moments. I think I would have loved to have a more concrete plot but I am not sure - this worked like this and somehow I loved the ending.