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Ageless Pages Reviews
Ageless Pages Reviews rated it 12 years ago
Read This Review & More Like It On My Blog!It's easily apparent from the very start of this deceptively good novel that Ironskin is a story loosely based on Charlotte Brontë's beloved classic Jane Eyre. Fortunately for me, I have never read the original, and that's one of the reasons I think I was f...
The Blair Book Project
The Blair Book Project rated it 13 years ago
Five years have passed and the Great War between human and fey has long gone. But the tragedy brought upon the world still lurks within the victims of the war. They are called, the ironskin, and Jane is one of them.Seeming to want nothing more than to live as normal as possible, Jane takes on the jo...
Bibliophilic Monologues
Bibliophilic Monologues rated it 13 years ago
The trick to enjoying this novel is to completely disregard the publicity that states this is a retelling and go into it with the mindset that though it may have some similarities to the Bronte masterpiece, it is very much its own novel and deals with themes that are not at all similar (somewhat) to...
Ashleigh Paige
Ashleigh Paige rated it 13 years ago
See more of my reviews on The YA Kitten!Retellings can be tricky to pull off. In my experience, they work best when they capture the original's magic by relying on its plot and characters in certain places and diverging from the original in others in order to give it the feel that it's a book of its...
BookRatMisty
BookRatMisty rated it 14 years ago
"a steampunk retelling of Jane Eyre with fairies."What? I.Am.IN. ;P
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