My Imaginary Mary

By: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

Narrated by: Morag Sims

Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

It’s aliiiiiiiive! New York Times bestselling authors of My Lady Jane are back with the electric, poetic, and (almost) historical tale of the one and only Mary Shelley.

Mary may have inherited the brilliant mind of her late mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, but she lives a drab life above her father’s bookstore, waiting for an extraordinary idea that’ll inspire a work worthy of her parentage—and impress her rakishly handsome (and super-secret) beau, Percy Shelley.

Ada Lovelace knows a thing or two about superstar parents, what with her dad being Lord Byron, the most famous poet on Earth. But her passions lie far beyond the arts—in mechanical engineering, to be exact. Alas, no matter how precise Ada’s calculations, there’s always a man willing to claim her ingenious ideas as his own.

Pan, a.k.a. Practical Automaton Number One, is Ada's greatest idea yet: a machine that will change the world, if only she can figure out how to make him truly autonomous . . . or how to make him work at all.

When fate connects our two masterminds, Mary and Ada learn that they are fae—magical people with the ability to make whatever they imagine become real. But when their dream team results in a living, breathing, thinking PAN, Mary and Ada find themselves hunted by a mad scientist who won't stop until he finds out how they made a real boy out of spare parts.

With comic genius and a truly electrifying sense of adventure, Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows continue their campaign to turn the classics on their head in this YA fantasy that’s perfect for fans of Frankenstein and The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue.

©2022 Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers

This was horrible

I have never felt like my time had been waisted as bad as these authors did. This book might as well be a literary meme, they take forever to get going, then once they do they spend most of their time talking about useless nothing! I spent most of my time wondering when we'd get better explanations for their "fae powers" it never came. And these authers seem to think girl power and man smearing are the same thing, because the only "good" man in their story isn't actually alive for a good portion of the book! I don't recommend this to anyone over the age of 12, because you'd have to be a child to think this was any good.

This book weaves a delightful tale

I'm not super familiar with Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace however I didn't feel I needed to be. The characters came to life immediatly. Eveything I thought I knew about the chatacters was turned upside down. From this a tale of magic and female empowerment was born. The authors do an excellent job at keeping things light hearted as the characters deal with some dark things.

Loved every bit of it!

An adventurous, hilarious and praise worthy read! I loved every part of this book and more.

I LOVED IT

I loved it so much, I saw this book and I loved the settings in London back in the old days and even rain (I love the rain! me and Mary would be good friends talking about boys and the rain) loved the whole story though while reading I wanted to strangle Shelly and Mr Bryon. It was also the romantic story I was looking for and dancing together and god I almost cried with the beautiful romance during the end! Overall highly recommend it, amazing book and a bit of comedy which is what everyone needs!

trite and boring

I loved the earlier books in this series, particularly the first one, but this one was just, well, boring. The characters just navel gazed nonstop, the dialog was trite, and the story was not particularly well done. After the hilarious brilliance of the first book, this one was a real let down. I almost never return books, i will return this one.

Disappointing

I’ve liked other books by these authors, but this one was disappointing. Couldn’t even get through it. Boring storyline, although a good idea.