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Jane Steele
by Lyndsay Faye
A promising beginning went to hell in a racist, colonialist ending: a non-white person is the villain, another non white person loses a limb protecting a white woman, and a cache of lost jewels are given by a white man on behalf of the non white child to whom they belong, to the East India Trading Company. One of the worst things about Jane Eyre is the racist colonialist depiction of the madwoman in the attic, and Jane's aversion to her. This book started off promisingly as an homage that brought forth some of the original's subtexts and played with other plot points and characters in clever ways. So it was with horror that I saw the ending repeat the horrors of the past, not redeem them.