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Jodi Meadows

Autor(a) de My Lady Jane

22+ Works 5,476 Membros 382 Críticas 1 Favorited

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Obras por Jodi Meadows

My Lady Jane (2016) 1,348 exemplares
Incarnate (2012) 796 exemplares
My Plain Jane (2018) 773 exemplares
Before She Ignites (2017) 517 exemplares
The Orphan Queen (2015) 499 exemplares
Asunder (2013) 284 exemplares
My Calamity Jane (2020) 221 exemplares
Infinite (2014) 199 exemplares
The Mirror King (2016) 182 exemplares
My Contrary Mary (2021) — Autor — 155 exemplares
As She Ascends (2018) 130 exemplares
My Imaginary Mary (2022) 103 exemplares
When She Reigns (2019) 84 exemplares
Nightrender (2022) 49 exemplares
Phoenix Overture (2013) 43 exemplares
The Glowing Knight (2015) 21 exemplares
The Hidden Prince (2015) 20 exemplares
The Burning Hand (2015) 16 exemplares
The Black Knife (2016) 15 exemplares
Dawnbreaker (2023) 14 exemplares
My Salty Mary (2024) 6 exemplares

Associated Works

Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves (2012) — Contribuidor — 112 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
20th Century
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA

Membros

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I really enjoyed the first book but this one just disappointed me. I honestly don't get why the authors would write about Jane Eyre when it just comes across that they dislike both Jane and Rochester as characters.
 
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Fortunesdearest | 37 outras críticas | Feb 1, 2024 |
Really enjoyed this one. I am often leery of books that are described as funny because humor is so subjective, but this worked for me. I am going to have to go back at a later date and re-read to make sure I caught all the movie references etc. Pretty sure I caught all the Shakespeare. Looking forward to My Plain Jane - their take on Jane Eyre.
 
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Shelley8059 | 96 outras críticas | Jan 25, 2024 |
I liked it, but I didn’t love it. The world building was really good, but the romance… wasn’t. I just didn’t really care for it, or for the male love interest. He was okay, but when it comes to romance, okay just isn’t good enough.
Overall, I’d say this is a 3.5 star read.
 
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That_Crazy_Fangirl | 22 outras críticas | Jan 19, 2024 |
Well, this one was a more than a bit of a disappointment. There was a lot of promise…but I ended up feeling confused and annoyed most of the book.

The premise: Ana, the protagonist, is born into a world with fantasy trappings (dragons, trolls, rocs, etc.) where once you die you are reincarnated in another body. Everyone one always comes back, possibly because of the mysteriously absent god Janan, who “lives” in an equally enigmatic temple in the center of the city Heart. This city is the focal point of human civilization, which has organized itself into a kind of utopian society run by a council.

Okay, so one night 18 years ago the soul Ciana died and the temple flashed dark. When Ana was born five years later everyone expected her to be Ciana. Instead Ana was a soul that has never been born before –a Newsoul. Ana's father abandoned his family, while her mother, Li, raised Ana for outside of Heart for eighteen years. Li isn’t all too keen on this Newsoul business, and she is an abusive and neglectful parent to Ana. At the start of the novel, Ana is 18 and heading out to Heart on her own to find out who she is/why she exists.

This seems to be a good start, yes? And Ana learns a number of intriguing details on top of all of this. For example, Heart was found as a pre-existing city, and no one knows who built it. (Remember, these people have been around for thousands of years). The walls of the city have a “heartbeat” which Ana finds repellent but everyone else is dandy with. The temple has no entrance. Heart is regularly besieged by dragons who appear to want to destroy the temple of Janan.

Turns out, however, that rather than investigating this fascinating Janan/reincarnation/Newsoul/city of Heart tangle, the plot is mostly about Ana’s relationship with Sam. Who is the Sam you ask? Well, he’s this fellow Ana meets at the start of her journey who just happened to be camping out in the wilderness when she needs to be saved. From then on out he becomes her almost (boy)friend and guardian. Ah, Sam. He's sweet. He's hot. He's a gifted. He saves Ana’s life. What’s my problem? I guess I was bothered by how their relationship was composed of awkwardness, confused kisses, and music lessons and nothing else. He’s thousands of years old! He’s spent reincarnations as men and women! Why is he so awkward about his relationship with Ana? Also, he struck me as boring because he never really did anything interesting the whole novel. I cut Ana a little slack because she had grown up in an emotionally abusive home. But when Sam does sneaky things (like creeping out of the house late at night and talking about her behind her back) she never really holds him accountable! *sigh*

The world building was the strongest part of the novel, but there were far too many details left unexplained. This utopian society for example? Aside from the fact that work distribution and legal points are glossed over; apparently, everyone is perfectly content with being bossed around by a council. I never got a good picture of this society or how it worked, and as I love the gritty issues of utopian societies, this bugged me. The mix of fantasy/science fiction was interesting at first, but there was never any explanation for it. Electronic books and dragons? Synthetic silk and canons? How, why, what?! Also, people know about Cockatoos from faraway lands, but apparently Heart is the only place safe from fantastical and deadly creatures? So very confusing to me. Also, the thing with souls being asexual was original, but I saw a lot of relational complications with that.

The climax was…actually I really don’t know. I didn’t see that particular plot twist with Ana’s father coming, but I felt it was rushed and abruptly swept offstage. None of the big questions Ana had at the beginning were really answered, and while the Newsoul phenomenon has a reason now, it wasn’t really dealt with either.

Maybe I’m being too judgmental about the book. I just feel that there was a lot that could have happened, but didn’t, because Ana was too wrapped up with Sam. Well, perhaps their relationship just wasn’t my cup of tea.
… (mais)
 
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TashaBookStuff | 117 outras críticas | Jan 13, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
22
Also by
1
Membros
5,476
Popularidade
#4,549
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
382
ISBN
132
Línguas
6
Marcado como favorito
1

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