Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

⭐️ - 3

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I finally finished it!

I was really expecting to love this but it was such a slog. If you split this book into quarters, I really enjoyed the 2nd quarter but I really didn’t enjoy the other 3 at all. I’m sorry but I just didn’t understand what the point of this was.

I’m giving this 3 stars because the writing is stunning, the tension in that 2nd quarter is done brilliantly, and I did love Jane as a character. I loved her bluntness and her desire for independence. At the half way point I thought this was going to be a high 4⭐️ read for me.

However, I hated pretty much the whole 2nd half of the book… we spent so long just not doing anything. The relationships in this are all so abusive and controlling but the narrative doesn’t make me believe that that was the intention.

I can totally see the influence of this, particularly in the thriller genre but it just so didn’t work for me. People who love this book, please explain to me why? I genuinely would like to understand, because I just didn’t get it.