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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

47 reviews

timmytunter's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Suicide, and Grief

whoisrois's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

From Jane Eyre hater to Jane Eyre tolerater 😇 long and so mind numbingly boring in parts but she was ahead of her time tbf! charlotte put your feet up and get the dildo out hen you've done well

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Confinement and Racism

undecidedpersonality's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Confinement, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Suicide, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

kirjakimalainen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

The writing is great of course but i honestly saw the story more as horror than romance. Like this is absolutely not a relationship i'd want to end up in

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Colonisation

Minor: Suicide

nadiajohnsonbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Ableism, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Racial slurs and Slavery

gandalf_a's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Classism

Minor: Cursing, Incest, Infidelity, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

sbookreader's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Astonishing that this is billed as a romance. The colonialist bent was equally unwelcome. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Grief, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and Classism

realizedcreation's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Would have been higher but for the anti-semitism and racism

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Antisemitism

interrobang_1's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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

4.0

Strange listening to this after such a long time - it was always my favourite book growing up and the cover of my paper copy is 80% sellotape from being read so much. 
There's definitely elements which went way over my head when I was younger

(particularly the age gaps, although I never really liked either of the love interests, and the language used to describe Mr Rochester's wife). But I still love Jane, and think she's such a good character, especially in the first half of the book - strong-willed, aware of injustices and wanting to fight them, clever, blunt, and witty. I also really love the way that female friendship is portrayed - I think Jane talks about these relationships in a much more significant way than her relationshios with men. I never felt like the book had a happy ending and I still feel the same.

I still really feel that this is a rewarding and worthwhile read though, and I enjoyed coming back to it after all this time. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying and Racism

drraytay's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Mental illness, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail