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A review by erikars
Emma Brown by Clare Boylan
4.0
I started this book with trepidation. Often, works based off of unfinished manuscripts are horrible. The worst of the genre being those that just recycle characters and plot points from other works by the same author.
Thus, I was pleasantly surprised by how Boylan took 20 pages of a manuscript from Charlotte Bronte and wrote a story that was all her own and highly entertaining in its own right. The first chapter from Boylan was a bit of an abrupt transition. As the story gained in momentum though, Boylan found her own rhythm and voice that was reminiscent of Bronte without being derivative or fake.
All in all, I really enjoyed this and would have been quite happy to read it even without the Bronte connection.
Thus, I was pleasantly surprised by how Boylan took 20 pages of a manuscript from Charlotte Bronte and wrote a story that was all her own and highly entertaining in its own right. The first chapter from Boylan was a bit of an abrupt transition. As the story gained in momentum though, Boylan found her own rhythm and voice that was reminiscent of Bronte without being derivative or fake.
All in all, I really enjoyed this and would have been quite happy to read it even without the Bronte connection.