#CBR10Bingo: So shiny This review will contain spoilers for Jane Eyre, but that book is more than 170 years old, and therefore, if you don’t know the gist of the plot already, that’s really not my fault. In this slightly alternate universe, King George III of England was not actually mad, he just saw ghosts and could talk to them (making others believe he wasn’t quite right in the head). He founded a society “for the Relocation of Wayward Spirits”, led by none other than the Duke […]
The Real, Unedited Story of Jane Eyre
Based on how much I enjoyed My Lady Jane, I immediately pre-ordered the follow up novel, My Plain Jane which tells the true story of Jane Eyre. The last novel included an apology to England for what the three authors were about to do its history while this one started with an apology for what they would do to its literature. Like the previous novel, this one is fun, irreverent, and hilarious. However, I preferred the previous novel. This might simply be because of my […]
Just as good as everyone said it would be.
This book was slow to start for me. I found it interesting and enjoyed it while I was reading it, but I didn’t exactly need to pick it up or anything, and I kept getting distracted by cheesy romance novels I checked out from the library instead. I should have just been patient. At around 25% (the time she commits her second murder), I was hooked, and at about halfway through when new characters enter the picture, I was so into it I practically read […]
If Charlotte Bronte and Al Swearengen Had a Child, It Might Be This Jane
It’s hard not to like a book that starts with a quote from Jane Eyre and a murder. Though Jane Steele, a novel by Lyndsay Faye, didn’t rock my world as much as I had hoped, I did have a good time reading it and I definitely recommend it both if you are a fan of the original Bronte novel or even if you aren’t. It took me a bit to warm up to this Jane—partly because I couldn’t figure out how seriously to take […]