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Jane would never ever ever EVER EVER (view spoiler) NEVER EVER. That is fundamentally the core of the book and her character and having her do that means the author DOESN'T GET THE ORIGINAL since that is the WHOLE POINT OF THE STORY.
If this weren't on my Kindle, I would've thrown the book across the room, I swear. Just...no. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.
That would be like a Pride & Prejudice retelling where Darcy and Liz ...more
If this weren't on my Kindle, I would've thrown the book across the room, I swear. Just...no. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.
That would be like a Pride & Prejudice retelling where Darcy and Liz ...more
A modern take on Jane Eyre, in which the main character is a Korean-American woman who grew up with her uncle's family in Flushing, Queens. She goes to as a nanny for a Chinese girl adopted by a crunchy granola women's studies professor and her husband, a Brooklyn-born high school teacher.
A fun read overall, with interest cultural dimensions springing from dynamics within Jane's Korean-American family, her interactions in Brooklyn and the year she spends with relatives in Seoul. the concepts of ...more
A fun read overall, with interest cultural dimensions springing from dynamics within Jane's Korean-American family, her interactions in Brooklyn and the year she spends with relatives in Seoul. the concepts of ...more
Really three and a half. There are a lot of things to like about this - the depth of the description of the Korean-American experience, some commentary on the more troubling aspects of Jane Eyre, and the capture of a certain moment in New York City before and after 9/11. But it doesn't entirely succeed. Jane's character arc seems to stall out a bit when she flees from the Mr. Rochester character (though one could say the same thing of Jane Eyre, I suppose), Ed Farley's character was flat, and th
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Am a fan of: retelling of Jane Eyre, books about mixed race characters, books set in multiple countries. Am not as much a fan of: unearned character shifts, disregard of the anger that makes Jane Eyre great as a novel in the first place.
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