24.2k reviews for:

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

4.11 AVERAGE

lizetteratura's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

daisy_anne's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

abbylouisef's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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this was going to be a 5 star until that ending!

i looove the way brontë addresses the reader in this.

i felt this book right in the religious trauma. especially

when helen dies and she’s scared because she isn’t as strong in her faith as helen.

so let me say about why i HATED that ending.

when jane returns to edward, she says he never would’ve actually forced her to stay as his mistress - like bitch he basically threatened to get aggressive if she didn’t agree to run away with him??? like we’re meant to be sooo happy that she got back with this liar? nah.

the ending isn’t THE worst because

she is now independent, almost has a developed frontal lobe and is now the more powerful one in their relationship. however, i just think her pinning over him stopped her from experiencing more, and when she was younger she wanted to experience more of the world, but she ends up only seeing essentially 3 towns.

my dream ending would’ve been

jane travelling to france or germany and running a school for orphan girls, where she makes sure they get a nicer education than she got and she loves all the school girls as if they were her own. in my dream ending she is happy single, childless and being smart and badass.

i love how feminist this book was for the time but i just think it could’ve been mooooore feminist.

ahjukittyssi's review against another edition

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havent finished yet

inevanhecke's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

emtation's review against another edition

4.25

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

braqueman's review against another edition

3.0

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2,5

transmascjew's review against another edition

5.0

relaxing

qmch's review against another edition

4.0

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Nice prose. I read it after Jasper Fforde's [b:The Eyre Affair|27003|The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)|Jasper Fforde|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1445540555s/27003.jpg|3436605], so it's neat to see the tie-ins from Fforde's novel as they "affect" the plot of Brontë's. Apart from that, an overall charming work of British literature which took me much longer to finish than it should have (not that this is at all a knock against the novel-- my Kindle screen unexpectedly broke while I was about halfway through the book).

mariekeroos's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes