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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

99 reviews

yoheleonore's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury

madelnguttorms1's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

If you're interested in England during the Victorian era, then I would recommend that you read Jane Eyre at some point. The values and morals of the English people during this time are made quite clear through the eyes of Jane, in both the way she perceives herself and the way she perceives others.

It wasn't really a book after my taste as I'm not much of a romance reader, and my taste in books is quite different to this one. I enjoy fast-paced, plot-driven stories, and Jane Eyre is a slow-paced novel that is mostly character-driven. We follow Jane through a portion of her life and we get to know the people and the environment around her during this time. I could enjoy this book if I had related to Jane more, but I felt quite distant to her most of the time, despite this book being formatted as an autobiography. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Suicide

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

its_van_vulpen's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Suicide

Minor: Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

yolanda_h's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

jjjreads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Infidelity

Moderate: Ableism, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Racism

amelew's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexism, and Suicide

sarawiser's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Suicide, Antisemitism, and Religious bigotry

jowmy4's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Incredbily well-written - I'm not sure I've ever read a character quite so in-love as Jane - but not a comfortable read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Suicide, and Violence

silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

2022 re-read:
I still love this book. I noticed more parallels and contrasts between St John and Mr Rochester on this read through--some of them are distinctly more flattering to Mr Rochester than St John.

Original review: 
I've lost track of how many times exactly I've re-read this book since I first discovered it as a teenager, but I know it has been quite a few times. Admittedly, part of the appeal is simply to the gooshy romantic side of my personality that I pretend to keep hidden, but I also love some of the other themes of this book--both that there are times when conscience  must overrule feelings and that there are times when it is important to include your feelings in decisions rather than simply succumb to apparent logic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Child abuse, Infidelity, Suicide, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury