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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
2.5
I liked the first half of this, but was really disappointed by the second half.. This had a strong premise and start combined with an easy, but Bronte-reminiscent YA writing style, but it fell flat by the end.
I liked the first half of this, but was really disappointed by the second half.
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I was hoping Jane would murder the Rochester character, but nope. Still the same romance. Boo.
I enjoyed this book much more the first time I read it, when it was called Moll Flanders.
Well, I quite liked this! I'll admit I expected Jane to be more of an anti-heroine than she actually was, but I still found this super enjoyable.
Review to come.
Review to come.
I enjoyed reading this but I also skimmed a LOT of it. Haven't read Jane Eyre and don't know a lot about it, so didn't care too much about that (and my eyes glazed over every time a passage was quoted). I don't know much about the Punjabi history, and I didn't pay much attention to when they recounted stories from there. Also it was a lot of information at once and hard to keep track of all the men so I just decided not to.
Agree with others that the first half was interesting, when we actually got to follow along with the action, and then the second part dragged on and on since we needed so much exposition about the ~~mystery (which tbh i dont really understand the conclusion to).
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I definitely thought she was in love with Clarke, so that reveal was a bit disappointing, especially since she could have made more effort to be friends when they met againAgree with others that the first half was interesting, when we actually got to follow along with the action, and then the second part dragged on and on since we needed so much exposition about the ~~mystery (which tbh i dont really understand the conclusion to).
Marvelous fun! Deliciously dark and ultimately incredibly sweet, this book is page turning enjoyment from start to finish. All of the characters are wonderfully realized, and Jane is going to stick with me as a favourite for a long time. She's one of those (sadly uncommon) women protagonists that are allowed the nuance of being both ambitious, ruthless, and selfish; and also fiercely compassionate, just, loyal, and kind.
The prose itself is excellent, painting a vivid, living picture of the world Jane inhabits as seen through her unique eyes. It's a page turner too, hard to put down. Definitely a book I'd happily recommend!
The prose itself is excellent, painting a vivid, living picture of the world Jane inhabits as seen through her unique eyes. It's a page turner too, hard to put down. Definitely a book I'd happily recommend!
This book was really fun! I was more interested in the first part than the middle, but the ending really brought me back into it. I liked getting into this world, I was so interested to see what would happen to Jane at boarding school. Her life in London with Clark was what kind of went slow for me, but when she goes back to her childhood home posing as a tutor, I really got back into it. It was very interesting to see Jane grow up and make decisions that really changed her as a person.
I really loved Jane. She was a strong female lead and I loved her little inner dialogue ("dear reader") that we got. She made some wonderful relationships throughout this book. I loved her friendship with Clark and I loved her relationship with the girl she tutored (I will not try to spell it as I listened to the audiobook). The other characters who were part of Jane's family when she was small and the other children in the boarding school and the other characters who lived at Jane's childhood home when she went back all really added to this story and brought it to life.
The ending really captured my attention and I really like how it concluded. And of course I liked the murder.
Definitely one I recommend whether or not you have read the original Jane Eyre!
I really loved Jane. She was a strong female lead and I loved her little inner dialogue ("dear reader") that we got. She made some wonderful relationships throughout this book. I loved her friendship with Clark and I loved her relationship with the girl she tutored (I will not try to spell it as I listened to the audiobook). The other characters who were part of Jane's family when she was small and the other children in the boarding school and the other characters who lived at Jane's childhood home when she went back all really added to this story and brought it to life.
The ending really captured my attention and I really like how it concluded. And of course I liked the murder.
Definitely one I recommend whether or not you have read the original Jane Eyre!
While this is less of a serial killer novel than I was led to believe, it was still fantastic. Jane Eyre is one of my favourite classic novels of all time and I a feel like this retelling is one of my favourites to be inspired by its pages.
Jane’s story differs from the original tale in she does not come from nothing but after something terrible happens choose to go to governess school and see if she can change her ways. Spoiler: that doesn’t happen.
What ensues through the rest of this book is a pure gold narrative of a murderess and her story of making her way back to her family home and the life she once knew.
I so enjoyed this Jane’s story, as much as I enjoyed Jane Eyre’s original story, and I want this author to write more retellings this way because this one knocked it out of the park. Serial killer Elizabeth Bennett next please!
Jane’s story differs from the original tale in she does not come from nothing but after something terrible happens choose to go to governess school and see if she can change her ways. Spoiler: that doesn’t happen.
What ensues through the rest of this book is a pure gold narrative of a murderess and her story of making her way back to her family home and the life she once knew.
I so enjoyed this Jane’s story, as much as I enjoyed Jane Eyre’s original story, and I want this author to write more retellings this way because this one knocked it out of the park. Serial killer Elizabeth Bennett next please!
I’ve never read Faye’s work before, and I was going to put off reading Jane Steele until I’d read a few of her others, but when I saw the book on the library shelves, I grabbed it, sat down, and read it in a day. I wouldn’t necessarily call this a Jane Eyre retelling, but it’s certainly Jane Eyre-inspired, as evidenced from Jane Steele’s fondness for the Charlotte Brontë novel.
Jane Steele’s life follows a similar trajectory as the character Jane Eyre, and she finds comfort in her fictional counterpart. The major difference between Steele and Eyre is that while Eyre merely struggles and sometimes voices her discontent against the female imprisonment and injustice in society by men, Steele actually does something about it. And by doing something about it, she murders the offending men. She isn’t a serial killer. She murders in self-defense, as a way to protect her life and the lives of others.
It’s well-paced, vicious, atmospheric, and a little predictable if you’re familiar with Jane Eyre’s story. The way in which Faye writes makes you feel as if you’re in the dirty heart of Victorian London. The biggest, most frustrating aspect of the entire thing was how forced Steele’s relationship felt with Thornfield most of the time, almost as if Steele expected and forced her life to follow in Eyre’s footsteps because that’s what she was familiar with and that’s where she found comfort. But there’s a scene with Clarke that made me gasp and sigh and long for so much more development in that direction. That would have been the twist that earned that fifth star.
If you enjoy Jane Eyre and its many incarnations; Victoriana; and historical fiction with strong, deviant women, you’ll surely find something to enjoy in Jane Steele.
Jane Steele’s life follows a similar trajectory as the character Jane Eyre, and she finds comfort in her fictional counterpart. The major difference between Steele and Eyre is that while Eyre merely struggles and sometimes voices her discontent against the female imprisonment and injustice in society by men, Steele actually does something about it. And by doing something about it, she murders the offending men. She isn’t a serial killer. She murders in self-defense, as a way to protect her life and the lives of others.
It’s well-paced, vicious, atmospheric, and a little predictable if you’re familiar with Jane Eyre’s story. The way in which Faye writes makes you feel as if you’re in the dirty heart of Victorian London. The biggest, most frustrating aspect of the entire thing was how forced Steele’s relationship felt with Thornfield most of the time, almost as if Steele expected and forced her life to follow in Eyre’s footsteps because that’s what she was familiar with and that’s where she found comfort. But there’s a scene with Clarke that made me gasp and sigh and long for so much more development in that direction. That would have been the twist that earned that fifth star.
If you enjoy Jane Eyre and its many incarnations; Victoriana; and historical fiction with strong, deviant women, you’ll surely find something to enjoy in Jane Steele.