Reviews - Jane Eyre | The StoryGraph

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

4.11 AVERAGE

chloethornton's review against another edition

3.75

challenging reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

whatkotreads's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

stellafen's review against another edition

5.0

I don’t often write reviews, but for this book I’ll make an exception because I can not give up an opportunity to talk about how much i love this book. It is truly amazing, painful, and beautiful. From beginning to end I couldn’t put it down; Jane is such a wonderful narrator, recalling her past with vividness and peacefulness where anybody else would have lost their head in anger or pain. I’m just counting the days until I can reread this!

waterbuckit's review against another edition

5.0

A beautiful synopsising of every romance I'll ever care about.

valeriacopelli's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional inspiring lighthearted mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

llama_lover3's review against another edition

3.5

inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

georgiaswad's review against another edition

5.0

okay fine i loved this. i always thought i didn’t like jane eyre (despite having never actually reading it) because of the excerpts i studied at school so have read literally every other brontë novel (shout out to anne my favourite brontë) before this one. this had allll the endless laughs of villette but without the boring heroine. i actually loved jane! hallelujah! snarky but sweet with believable thought processes and attachments she felt genuinely fully fleshed and interesting. also, i don’t think i’ve ever read a book with such an affectionate, eloquent and overwhelmingly in love hero. mr darcy could never. mr rochester was BIG BOY simpin and as a girl who loves a simp i was so here for it. once again charlotte brings it home with something she let me down with in villette.
at first i was put off by the apparent ableism (and remained put off by the racism) but i think this was somewhat redeemed when rochester explained that jane herself could become equally as insane as bertha and he would still love her as dearly and care for her as tenderly as he could - the issue with bertha seemed to be that he never actually formed any attachment to her beyond the superficial, and she wasn’t a good person even before she sunk into madness. this also through up the gorgeous parallels between misunderstood evil crazy jane being thrown in the red room and evil crazy bertha being locked in the attic. i also will allow rochester getting maimed whilst trying to save his suicidal and homicidal wife as a proof of his genuine decency.
potentially my favourite brontë novel ? (im sorry anne! i’ve betrayed you!) fully think charlotte would have been hilarious in person considering how her writing has me chuckling.