A review by melledotca
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

5.0

Bloody good fun. Ignore the blurb. This is not a gothic retelling. It's satirical and dark and respects the language as it frolics with it. It knows the socioeconomic and political realities of the day (as the Brontës well did) and how often cruel and sickeningly unfair they were, and decides to play a little "what if?"

Do not go into it expecting Brontë. Seriously.