Beverly L. (bevychap) reviewed on + 151 more book reviews
It's probably my fault. This is the third or fourth Jane Eyre re-write I've tried to read, and it upsets me every time. I'm not sure why I think that reading a reworked version of my all time favorite book is a good idea, or why I have this denial thing going on: Maybe it will be different this time. Maybe I'll like it. Maybe (and this is probably what I'm really wanting) I'll recapture the magic of reading Jane Eyre for the first time.
This book was, for the 100 pages I read anyway, extremely well-written. It's set in 1950s Scotland (and later, the Ornkey Islands, not that I got that far). The atmosphere, the characters, and the plot are all dead-on Jane Eyre, while the style is more current and readable. In fact, this is probably an excellent book and even a good 'soft version' of the original.
But without a twist (again, at least in the first 100 pages) or anything to differentiate it from the original, I just had to stop reading and pick up my very worn copy of the original instead.
This book was, for the 100 pages I read anyway, extremely well-written. It's set in 1950s Scotland (and later, the Ornkey Islands, not that I got that far). The atmosphere, the characters, and the plot are all dead-on Jane Eyre, while the style is more current and readable. In fact, this is probably an excellent book and even a good 'soft version' of the original.
But without a twist (again, at least in the first 100 pages) or anything to differentiate it from the original, I just had to stop reading and pick up my very worn copy of the original instead.
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