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Finally, A Jane Eyre I Can Get Behind

August 2, 2018 by Emmalita 7 Comments

I don’t like any of the Bronte siblings books. Jane Eyre is the only one of their books I have managed to finish. I hated it. I would not have picked this up if I hadn’t loved My Lady Jane. Even so, I picked it up with trepidation. Everything was fine. There is a great star crossed love story here. There are wild moors. There are broody gentlemen. There is a horrible school with an abusive headmaster. But there is also feminism, wit, charm, ghosts, and […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, fiona hardingham, Jodi Meadows, my plain jane

Emmalita's CBR10 Review No:32 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, fiona hardingham, Jodi Meadows, my plain jane ·
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Read this for all the sick Mr. Rochester burns.

August 2, 2018 by narfna 3 Comments

Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #2 out of 11 I didn’t like this one as much as My Lady Jane (mostly because it wasn’t as funny), but overall I still had a really fun time listening to it. I mean, really, the standards were ridiculously high, first of all because I do think the first book was just plain funnier, but also because a) They had to live up to that all that funny and maybe the story they were telling this time […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, fiona hardingham, humor, Jodi Meadows, my plain jane, narfna, parody, retellings, the lady janies, YA Romance, Young Adult

narfna's CBR10 Review No:89 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, fiona hardingham, humor, Jodi Meadows, my plain jane, narfna, parody, retellings, the lady janies, YA Romance, Young Adult ·
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