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Jane Rochester:A Novel Inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
A sequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
Dear Reader,
Do you remember me? I am now Jane Rochester these past 15 years. You may have known me as the obstinate though obscure English governess, Jane Eyre. I peer back through the linear scope of time and am compelled to record fully the first years of my marriage to Edward Fairfax Rochester. There was a short time when my fate and fitness for the role of friend, nurse and wife was suspect.--Jane Rochester
Dear Reader,
Do you remember me? I am now Jane Rochester these past 15 years. You may have known me as the obstinate though obscure English governess, Jane Eyre. I peer back through the linear scope of time and am compelled to record fully the first years of my marriage to Edward Fairfax Rochester. There was a short time when my fate and fitness for the role of friend, nurse and wife was suspect.--Jane Rochester
256 pages, Paperback
First published April 21, 2000
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July 9, 2008
Well, I'm embarrassed to admit that I read this, but I will own up to it in an attempt to save others from the same fate. (In my defense, I was trying to procrastinate writing some paper or other in college and it was available for free on the iUniverse website.)
This book is loaded with bad grammar and distracting typos, and the characters bore little resemblance to the ones from the original novel. The plot was ludicrous as well as poorly executed, so reading this was an altogether cringeworthy experience.
Avoid!
This book is loaded with bad grammar and distracting typos, and the characters bore little resemblance to the ones from the original novel. The plot was ludicrous as well as poorly executed, so reading this was an altogether cringeworthy experience.
Avoid!
May 11, 2016
Picking up from where Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre left off, Jane has finally married Rochester and gotten her happily every after, but it isn’t exactly what she was expecting since she is still young and naïve and he is worldly and twice her age. He has to contend with the loss of one of his hands and his sight after the disastrous fire at Thornfield Hall. Jane easily falls into the routine of nursemaid, but there is still a loneliness with being isolated in the country along with the problem of she feels Rochester is trying to distance himself because he can’t understand why she would want to stay by the side of a cripple as well as she feels she doesn’t exactly understand what he wants from her as a wife. Her cousins, the Rivers, drop in adding further familiar faces, as the author revisits the characters giving them endings as well.
Though this story was supposed to be only 187 pages, it felt like it dragged on through her daily life and I started to wonder if there was a point to the story other than just covering the year immediately following their marriage. I did find it fascinating how introspective the story was as it tried to uncover what was behind everyone’s motives. Though Rochester seemed far too over-dramatic at times (and described as being large, gruff, and shaggy most of the time – which brought to mind more a bear than the rugged, dark, smoldering Byronic character from the original book). Though this tried to invoke the style of speech from the time period, it did come off as being rather stilted and there were typos all over the place. Still, I did think this was a worthy sequel to Jane Eyre. Jane herself was exceptionally brought to life (though she went a little too religious at times, compared to I don’t remember the original Jane veering down that road). Still, with being a sequel to a classic, one can’t help but compare the two.
Though this story was supposed to be only 187 pages, it felt like it dragged on through her daily life and I started to wonder if there was a point to the story other than just covering the year immediately following their marriage. I did find it fascinating how introspective the story was as it tried to uncover what was behind everyone’s motives. Though Rochester seemed far too over-dramatic at times (and described as being large, gruff, and shaggy most of the time – which brought to mind more a bear than the rugged, dark, smoldering Byronic character from the original book). Though this tried to invoke the style of speech from the time period, it did come off as being rather stilted and there were typos all over the place. Still, I did think this was a worthy sequel to Jane Eyre. Jane herself was exceptionally brought to life (though she went a little too religious at times, compared to I don’t remember the original Jane veering down that road). Still, with being a sequel to a classic, one can’t help but compare the two.
January 20, 2012
This was an OK read.
The tone and the writing did seem like Charlotte Bronte's, but, well... it's somewhat like fanfiction.
The Doris Lace subplot felt infantile. I abhorred that. The whole story was moving on quite well and suddenly this Doris Lace fiasco gets thrown in. Totally crashed the party. And it wasn't even that mysterious, as it was, quite frankly, very obvious.
St. John in here also vexed me. The original St. John vexed me enough already, and this new St. John vexed me in another way. Again, it felt a little infantile, and with the way the story was written in that part, one would have thought that something more serious and severe would have happened (instead of just some plain gossip, from one source)
A good, fun, nostalgic read while it lasted but annoying at parts.
The tone and the writing did seem like Charlotte Bronte's, but, well... it's somewhat like fanfiction.
The Doris Lace subplot felt infantile. I abhorred that. The whole story was moving on quite well and suddenly this Doris Lace fiasco gets thrown in. Totally crashed the party. And it wasn't even that mysterious, as it was, quite frankly, very obvious.
St. John in here also vexed me. The original St. John vexed me enough already, and this new St. John vexed me in another way. Again, it felt a little infantile, and with the way the story was written in that part, one would have thought that something more serious and severe would have happened (instead of just some plain gossip, from one source)
A good, fun, nostalgic read while it lasted but annoying at parts.
December 1, 2019
In a word: bad. To be fair, however, there are moments in this book that are quite good and show lots of promise. It is unfortunate they are soon followed by sheer awfulness. It would have been very beneficial if the author had been able to make use of several proof-readers or copy editors. The grammatical errors, the wrong word choices, the punctuation mistakes were too numerous to even keep track of after the first several chapters. One final note. In the early scenes I understood the author was attempting to convey the idea that Jane and Rochester had to work through a few things early in their marriage. This is actually a fairly reasonable and interesting theme, but it is a disaster in the hands of this author. Maybe it goes back to her word choices in several instances — just awkward, awkward, awkward. Maybe the punctuation, grammar etc. A similar theme placed in the hands of a more skilled writer — or just a great copy editor — would have made so much difference here because the theme has plenty of fertile ground and could have been taken in so many subtle, more nuanced directions.
November 8, 2019
Read this WAY back in high school and didn’t seem to remember it, so went through quite some expense to acquire it. And now I see why I didn’t remember it. It’s entirely forgettable, barely readable in the flowery narratives and adds drama where drama isn’t needed. Seeing why this isn’t in print and why it should say that way.
June 13, 2017
$3.99
Jane Eyre has married Edward Rochester and finds out that married life is not all she thought it would be. It turns out to be a lot of work, especially since she and Edward still have secrets from each other. Adele has been sent away to boarding school and is barely mentioned. I wish she figured more into this story because Jane and Edward are pretty secluded except for some hired help, and one of those women turn out to be a nightmare or mad. There is no question that Doris Lace wants Jane dead, and I could have done without all of that in this story.
Jane's cousins, Mary and Diana, come to visit, along with a friend of Edward's named Nathaniel. St. John stirs up trouble, but other than this, there are very few other people ever mentioned, and I really would have liked to have seen more interaction with others. I was also hoping that Jane and Edward would have children because she "wrote this" 15 years after she married Edward
The grammar is atrocious and there are a number of other mistakes. I loved Jane Eyre but this story was just okay, not really what I was hoping for at all.
Jane Eyre has married Edward Rochester and finds out that married life is not all she thought it would be. It turns out to be a lot of work, especially since she and Edward still have secrets from each other. Adele has been sent away to boarding school and is barely mentioned. I wish she figured more into this story because Jane and Edward are pretty secluded except for some hired help, and one of those women turn out to be a nightmare or mad. There is no question that Doris Lace wants Jane dead, and I could have done without all of that in this story.
Jane's cousins, Mary and Diana, come to visit, along with a friend of Edward's named Nathaniel. St. John stirs up trouble, but other than this, there are very few other people ever mentioned, and I really would have liked to have seen more interaction with others. I was also hoping that Jane and Edward would have children because she "wrote this" 15 years after she married Edward
The grammar is atrocious and there are a number of other mistakes. I loved Jane Eyre but this story was just okay, not really what I was hoping for at all.
August 13, 2012
This is a sequel to Jane Eyre, that starts right at Rochester and Jane's marriage. While the author did a good job at recreating the language and style of the writing, I didn't like the difficulties that Jane and Rochester had in their marriage. I know that some conflict is inevitable (or else you wouldn't have a story!) but I didn't like the particular difficulties that the author chose for them to face. Also, I didn't like the thing that menaced Jane and Rochester from the outside. It didn't seem very believable.
March 7, 2014
NEGATIVE STARS. FOR YOUR SANITY, DO NOT READ!
This is complete crap and downright drivel—I couldn't even get past the preface. The author calls herself a "consulting editor," yet she barely has a grasp of the basic rules of spelling and grammar and can't be trusted to catch the multitude of errors in her own manuscript! (There are at least four typos on the first page alone!) This should have stayed in Mrs. Bennett's fevered fantasies.
I beg you: don't make the same mistake I did and pick up this waste of paper.
This is complete crap and downright drivel—I couldn't even get past the preface. The author calls herself a "consulting editor," yet she barely has a grasp of the basic rules of spelling and grammar and can't be trusted to catch the multitude of errors in her own manuscript! (There are at least four typos on the first page alone!) This should have stayed in Mrs. Bennett's fevered fantasies.
I beg you: don't make the same mistake I did and pick up this waste of paper.
April 7, 2012
Compared to Charlotte Brontë's original Jane Eyre novel, well there just is no comparison. That said, I did find some enjoyment in this sequel to Jane and Edward's life even though it lacked a great deal including the excellent vernacular found within the pages of Brontë's story. I found the development and growth of Jane and Edward's relationship interesting to follow, along with the changes in the lives of Jane's cousins.
November 13, 2009
There were a few risque parts in the novel on Jane and Rochester's nightly trysts, but overall I thought it was a fair sequel, though not a worthy one, but I still enjoyed how her heartless cousin came to actually fall in love with Jane and I enjoyed see a few more insights into Adele and her other two cousins.
October 20, 2011
Well written in that I sometimes forgot Charlotte Bronte wasn't the author, but it's harder to enjoy these characters for me because of their personalities even though the author does a good job of exploring them.
March 12, 2016
A love story for the ages
It was a good sequel of sorts of Jane and Edward and how their love and devotion to one another grew. It affirmed the love story that was Jane Eyre. More erotic scenes would have been welcomed!
It was a good sequel of sorts of Jane and Edward and how their love and devotion to one another grew. It affirmed the love story that was Jane Eyre. More erotic scenes would have been welcomed!
November 28, 2013
50 shades of Jane? Perhaps?
The storyline was weird (at best)... Skip it unless you have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING else to read.
The storyline was weird (at best)... Skip it unless you have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING else to read.
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