Review: An interesting re-telling
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2014
Jane Eyre is one of those classics that I love to hate. Jane can be so clueless that I just want to shake her, and Mr Rochester is an ass for how he treats her; I always find myself wishing that she'd tell him to stuff it and walk away in the end. But the book is compulsively readable; every time I go to look something up in it, I end up reading huge chunks, because it's just that good.I can't tell yet from just the first installment how closely this alternate-history retelling will stick to the details of the original, but it definitely shares the "compulsively readable" aspect. I found the world the author has created to be fascinating, and the details are revealed gradually, not in big information dumps. Jane is an interesting narrator, not perfect nor infallible, in a way that feels true to the original. I found myself putting other things aside to finish this first part, and I'm looking forward to future installments.