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Just as good as everyone said it would be.

Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

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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 it all the way through. (It’s probably not a coincidence that the further you get […]

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8/20/2016 's CBR8 Review No:105 |

If Charlotte Bronte and Al Swearengen Had a Child, It Might Be This Jane

Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye

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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 her (or that is, how seriously I was supposed to take the whole story).  Also, […]

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6/25/2016 's CBR8 Review No:16 |

I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance

Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

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I wasn’t sure if I was really enjoying this novel until about halfway through, when I realized I didn’t want to stop reading it until it was over. And then when it WAS over, I almost started reading it all over again. That’s the second book this year that has brought about this reaction. The first was Uprooted, and honestly, I’m happy enough to experience that feeling just once a year, so I feel sort of selfish for getting to enjoy it twice. Anyway! On to the book… Our heroine is Jane Steele, naturally and, her favorite novel is Jane […]

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6/21/2016 's CBR8 Review No:29 |

“When we tell truth, often we are callous; when we tell lies, often we are kind”

Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

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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 several of them), still tend to know the gist of the story (it is after all, 200 years old by now). Poor, down-trodden and plain Jane has an awful childhood, goes to the worst boarding school ever, then becomes a governess in a big, creepy mansion with a […]

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4/17/2016 's CBR8 Review No:41 |

Reader, I loved this book.

Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

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To say I was hesitant about reading Jane Steele is a bit of an understatement. Yes, we had a few glowing, wonderful reviews from ElCicco and yesknopemaybe, and that should have been enough to convince me. But last year I read Jane, a modern retelling of Jane Eyre, and I hated it. HATED IT. I was wary about getting myself into another Jane Eyre story. But this isn’t a retelling of the classic, its more of an homage. And it kicks ass. I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that this is going to be one of the Cannonball books of […]

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4/7/2016 's CBR8 Review No:15 |

Reader, I Murdered Him

Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

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I’ve read plenty of good books in 2016: books I’ve enjoyed, books that were well-written, books I’d recommend to people. What I haven’t read are books that go above and beyond that. Jane Steele is the first full length novel I’ve read this year that I want to procure a hardcopy of and just fall asleep with after rereading my favorite parts. I want to force it upon friends and strangers alike because it was such a lovely reading experience. Jane Steele is kind of a retelling of Jane Eyre. I say kind of because it’s more inspired by Jane […]

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3/28/2016 's CBR8 Review No:24 |

“Reader, I murdered him,”or what if Jane Eyre got a shiv and wasn’t afraid to use it?

Jane Steele: A Novel by Lyndsay Faye

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A while ago, I read a review of this new book by Lyndsay Faye which indicated that it was about a murderous governess who was a bit like Jane Eyre. While I am not a huge fan of Jane Eyre or the work of the Brontes in general (honestly, Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights are both tremendous jerks and their women were well shot of them), I already knew from Gods Of Gotham that Lyndsay Faye was a wonderful writer who manages the historical facts and criminal behavior in her novels quite ably. Plus the […]

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3/27/2016 's CBR8 Review No:16 |


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