Review: Jane Steele

Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book is perfect. Yes it is!

Jane Steele is a reader and fan, if you can call it that, of Jane Eyre, and though their lives have similarities, they also couldn't be more different. Our Jane is a murderer five times over, even if the people she kills are cruel and evil and not fit to be in this world. Her killing them is a survival necessity, not something she wants or takes pride in.

Narrated in the same style as Jane Eyre, and from Steele's POV, the author takes uson a journey that I wish didn't end: From young Jane's life with her mad mother to her suffering in boarding school to survival in London, and then back to the stately house where she grew up and where she meets her Mr. Rochester in the name of Charles Thornfield.

This book is historical fiction and a mystery and so much more. I was hooked from the first page and even if it's not a short book (more than 400 pages), it reads very easily. The characters are engaging: Jane herself, her friend Clarke, Thornfield, Sardar and little Sahjara. And there is a very important part that has to do with Thornfield and Sardar's life in India, which is IMHO impeccably researched and translated to fit into the book.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review

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