Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

11 reviews

lunar_moths's review

Was a really good book, it was just a bit to slow paced for me particularly being a student

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Sexism

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexism, Chronic illness, and Bullying

Minor: Death of parent, Child death, and Classism

saniyamuz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Chronic illness, Bullying, Mental illness, and Confinement

cait's review against another edition

dark reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, and Racial slurs

kelisabeth's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Blood, Classism, Chronic illness, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, and Sexism

aegireads's review

dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

i wish it was about a hundred pages shorter is all?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Confinement, Chronic illness, Classism, Death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Racism

naomi_k'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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Classism, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Misogyny, Adult/minor relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Racism

Minor: Gore, Death of parent, Cursing, Medical content, and Blood

amarj33t_5ingh's review

challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

I obtained a vintage copy of this book in primary school. I started reading it and then conceded ground, fatigued by its laborious plot. However, I returned to it five years later with more experience in life behind me and finished it.

Jane Eyre exhibits a disconcerting reality of the Victorian era from a feminine perspective. Hemmed in by society, orphaned and thrust to the ravages of fate but still retaining her Christian virtue and fighting for her beliefs Jane traverses a world opposed to everything she stands for.

But Jane is an epitome of religious virtue and refuses to despair ultimately traversing against all odds.

Overall, Bronte's narrative is labyrinthine. But it is also radical in how it conveys a sense of progression to the reader by the second half of the novel which reads like a Victorian thriller. With the hint of the supernatural to it, Jane Eyre is as tantalizing today as it was when it first fell upon Bronte's unsuspecting England.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Stalking, Torture, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Ableism, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

elenavillan's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Racism

Moderate: Suicide, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism

mrkdk's review against another edition

adventurous slow-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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abandonment, Gaslighting, Incest, Infidelity, Suicide, and Vomit

freddie_mewcury's review against another edition

I didn't like the narrator, and so much shit happens to Jane... I wasn't in the right space for that.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Chronic illness, and Child abuse