A review by montsebens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

"The waters came into my soul; I sank in deep mire: I felt no standing; I came into deep waters; the floods overflowed me."
Slow-paced books are my worst enemy. I tend to finish those flimsy 200-page stories in a single weekend and Jane Eyre took me a month to get through. I got some good laughs out of it, though. I don’t usually like romance plots because they’re so cheesy and this one wasn’t the exception — even though the writing is absolutely stunning, so enthralling, and mesmerizing, I could not get over the age difference between the love interest and Jane! It killed me every time I thought of it. I really did like the book, but it just felt endless. The slow-pace life is not for me.