[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.]I have a weak spot both for retellings and for “Jane Eyre”, so no wonder I'd request this novel. And it turned out to be fairly interesting, although it's more “inspired by” than an actual “retelling”, and at times ...
So have you ever wondered how Jane Eyre would have differed if she had been a murderess? I mean how many of us wanted her to kill her aunt and cousins because they were terrible and who really didn't like how her school treated her while she was there? So this book was really up my alley. The only r...
Imagine if you will a homicidal Jane Eyre and you get the idea of what you're getting yourself into when you read this book. It has murder and intrigue and suspense. It has a love story and a mystery. And I'd like to believe Charlotte Bronte would have really enjoyed this homage to her little story.
Spoiler warning! There will be some mild plot spoilers for the early sections of Jane Steele in this review. I'm going to try to keep things vague, but it's difficult to write about without revealing some details. Even if those in today's world who never read Jane Eyre (they exist, I've met sever...
I was sold on this book when I heard somewhere along the bookish grapevine that it was Jane Eyre, if Jane was a murderess. I was also sold because Lyndsay Faye is one of my favorite historical mystery writers; I trusted her to do justice to the original Jane. Jane Steele is not a retelling. Rather i...
Available today! (March 22, 2016) (I received an ARC of this title from the publisher via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review) I’ll admit to being both intrigued and very nervous when I requested an advance copy of Jane Steele. The ad copy touts it as “a reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gut...
FGMAMTC Blog ReviewThis novel is super entertaining. I didn't know what to expect going in, but it's a real treat. I don't always get into historical reads this much, but I was so deep in Jane Steele that I lost track of time on more than one occasion.Jane is an easily loved character and an excel...
I have a complicated relationship with Jack the Ripper fiction. I really want to like it but I rarely do. In fact, the only one I really enjoyed was Melanie Clegg's From Whitechapel and you could argue that it is more a novel that uses the case as background than an actual Ripper-novel. My track-rec...
#JANESTEELE 5 STARS AVAILABLE 3/22/16 GREAT BOOK! @LyndsayFaye @PutnamBooks I LOVED this book!! Jane was quite the little protagonist and she nor any of her friends were going to take any crap off of anyone. Neither Jane nor the reader knows a lot of the secrets about Jane until close to the e...
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