Week 46 Review: My Imaginary Mary

From Goodreads:

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.

My Review:
This was such a fun book to read! I was wondering if this was going to be set in the same world as My Plain Jane, and the villain from that book was briefly mentioned, since I'm fairly certain he was a real person. But alas, this is not a world of ghosts.

Oh, this combination of characters and world was so fantastic to read! Mary, the author who wrote Frankenstein, and Ada Lovelace, who did the math for the first theoretical computer, and the magic that made Pan, it was so interesting to read! 

This world with the fae, of people who can do magic, was so interesting to read! And that, between the two of them, they manage to bring Pan to life, well, I had to know what was going to happen next, because this felt like it as going to at least inspire Frankenstein. So that was great to read! 

I thoroughly enjoyed the romances in these books! Pan was just an absolute sweetie! But I also really enjoyed the friendship between these two, they were both smart, capable women, they worked well together, and it was a really great friendship for the both of them!

Loved reading this book and I can't wait for Mary #3! 

Authors: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand and Jodi Meadows
Series: Mary #2
Read: November 13th, 2022
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Love their writing and this series, and it's a 2022 Retelling Reading Challenge, Historical Fiction 2022 Book, Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2022 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: August 2nd 2022

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars