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A review by leeann_w
Jane & Edward: A Modern Reimagining of Jane Eyre by Melodie Edwards
5.0
I read Jane Eyre for the first time when I was 15 years old and I have distinct memories of being so engrossed in the book that I would coordinate my entire day around making time to read it. I had that same feeling reading Jane & Edward. It recaptured the experience of reading my favorite book for the first time and that was a really exciting thing.
Rather than getting bogged down in recreating the original plot beat-for-beat, Edwards took the most essential elements of Jane Eyre and used them as a starting point to create something beautiful and new. Setting Jane Eyre in the modern working world highlighted some beautiful themes about resilience and self-reliance that are of course present in the original novel but can get lost in translation for a modern reader unfamiliar with just how revolutionary a heroine like Jane would have been to a Victorian audience. I first read Jane Eyre as an inexperienced teenager and now as a working adult it was lovely to find Jane again and see her navigating the same world I do. I know people can get precious about adaptations of their favorite stories (myself included - I actually read very few Jane Eyre adaptations for this reason) so Jane & Edward might not work for every Brontë fan, but it certainly worked for me.
Rather than getting bogged down in recreating the original plot beat-for-beat, Edwards took the most essential elements of Jane Eyre and used them as a starting point to create something beautiful and new. Setting Jane Eyre in the modern working world highlighted some beautiful themes about resilience and self-reliance that are of course present in the original novel but can get lost in translation for a modern reader unfamiliar with just how revolutionary a heroine like Jane would have been to a Victorian audience. I first read Jane Eyre as an inexperienced teenager and now as a working adult it was lovely to find Jane again and see her navigating the same world I do. I know people can get precious about adaptations of their favorite stories (myself included - I actually read very few Jane Eyre adaptations for this reason) so Jane & Edward might not work for every Brontë fan, but it certainly worked for me.