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A review by lovebun
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
so, outside of skimming, i got to around chapter 9. the writing was good, engaging with some very arresting descriptions that keep your attention despite the slow build of the beginning.
i just couldn't get into it after realising "bertha" was a white creole woman flattened down to a one-dimensional spectre for the sake of... whatever was going on with the male love interest. (i swear i know his name... mister what's-his-face who is obsessed enough with bertha to keep her locked up in his attic for whatever reason.)
might pick this back up again when i feel as though i can stomach the period-typical attitudes of both the characters and the writer, but it's not likely.
i just couldn't get into it after realising "bertha" was a white creole woman flattened down to a one-dimensional spectre for the sake of... whatever was going on with the male love interest. (i swear i know his name... mister what's-his-face who is obsessed enough with bertha to keep her locked up in his attic for whatever reason.)
might pick this back up again when i feel as though i can stomach the period-typical attitudes of both the characters and the writer, but it's not likely.