Reviews tagging 'Death'

Jane Eyre (Seasons Edition -- Summer) by Charlotte Brontë

112 reviews

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

dark hopeful slow-paced

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

4.0

This is a very slow paced book. The middle takes FOREVER to get through, but the beginning is strong and the end is so good! It is a darker book not a fluffy romance like Jane Austen. It is a dark romance but not the kind like nowadays where people get kidnapped and such. Overall, It was good and I get why it is a classic. 

Quotes:

“Children can feel, but they cannot analyze their feelings.”

“I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.”

“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Grief, Abandonment, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Moderate: Classism and Incest

wormgirl's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Grief, and Confinement

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

Minor: Blood, Colonisation, Death of parent, Classism, and Death

averagemark's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

reading_for_pluto's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Confinement, Death, Religious bigotry, and Grief

recycled_personalities's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

Ok sooo it’s a wonderfully written book and the author is definitely talented. However, the story itself didn’t end up being my cup of tea. Rooting for the main character was super easy but her ending was not the one I was hoping for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Grief, Incest, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Classism, Death, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, and Mental illness

Basically Jane gets in a relationship, and engaged to be wed, with a man that’s 20+ years older than her when she is 18, leaves him for like 10 months after having found out that he had another wife literally locked in his attic, and then at the end of the book she comes back to him when she’s 19. And the ending portrays it as a happily ever after. Yeah, not my vibe.

sienasarah's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

Wonderfully romantic, dark, and capturing. A novel well beyond its time and one I return to time and time again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, and Death

baearles's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Mental illness

Minor: Death of parent

sorryviolet's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Grief, Classism, and Death

loveyoulike's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

my expectations were set a little too high, but it was still a pretty good read nonetheless

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death and Death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Death of parent

sarabookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious

3.5

It was an interesting book and I certainly see the appeal, especially for the time it was written. It took me a while to finish it, as a non-native English speaker and because of some subject matter in the beginning, but overall I can understand why this is considered a classic. Before I read it, I saw someone decribe it as "the greatest love story", but I definitely didn't see it that way. In my opinion it is definitely not a romantic story, more of a coming-of-age story with some romance, suspense and supernatural aspects, where the majority of the characters are very flawed. I know that some may consider

Mr Rocherster horrible

, but in my opinion, 

St John

becomes a more infuriating character in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Confinement, and Child abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Death, and Fire/Fire injury