Review: This is not a novel but a couple of chapters
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2014
If you want the rest you have to buy #2 and 3 and 4 and 5. So it should rightly be called "My Mr Rochester Chapters 1 to 4".The scene is set in an alternative  America with the United States reduced to the East Coast, and the main character the native of an independent, Amish-style state with an early 19th century lifestyle. The narrator basically tells the story of an alternative Jane Eyre, with the same characters and the same plot points. It reminds me of the way the American film industry buys the rights to successful foreign movies, and then sanitizes them into an appropriate American version, as if American filmgoers were too incredibly stupid to understand anything foreign. Perhaps the point is to tap a section of the audience that would find it difficult to read 19th century English and feels more at ease with high school American. If so, it is incredibly condescending. Jane Eyre for Dummies.