#BookClubFix discussion

Here are the questions we'll be starting off our discussion with on 5/24, 5:30 PM PDT over on Twitter. Join us there for the live chat, or chime in here any time you're ready!

Q1: We’re curious: did you come to JANE STEELE as a JANE EYRE fan?

Q2: If you’ve read JANE EYRE, how much did you find yourself comparing the two novels?

Q3: Once Jane kills her cousin, she considers herself evil. Do you think that’s true?

Q4: Jane and her BFF Clarke risk their lives for each other. Which other fictional BFFs do you love?

Goodness, I kept forgetting to comment on this! Better late than never, right?
Q1: I actually am not a huge Jane Eyre fan. Something about her story always felt too bleak to me and I felt like it took her a little too long to make decisions. Don't hate me! That being said, I listened to it on audiobook and didn't read it, so maybe that affected me some as the narrator came across as very timid. I also listened to Jane Steele on audiobook (thought the narrator did a good job) and I liked her pluck and ability to make quick decisions, even though they were pretty life altering decisions (quite literally).
Q2: I felt like the two books were similar when it came to the cousin, school, and governess situations, but they differed in that between those two situations, Jane Steele was self sufficient. She was on her own and survived through stubbornness and cunning, which I feel was pretty different than Jane Eyre's experience when she set out on her own.
Q3: I definitely think Jane's murder of her cousin was self defense. All of her murders had self defense or defense of a weaker person as the main motivation. I'm sure that ending another person's life, regardless of the reason, makes a person contemplate the goodness or darkness within them though.
Q4: Favorite friends: Verity and Maddie (from Code Name Verity), Jane and Lizzie (even though they're siblings, they're still BFFs in my opinion, from P&P), Annamae and Samantha (from Under a Painted Sky)

Julie wrote: "Goodness, I kept forgetting to comment on this! Better late than never, right?
Q1: I actually am not a huge Jane Eyre fan. Something about her story always felt too bleak to me and I felt like it t..."

Oh my gosh, yes!! to your fave friends-- all three pairs of them are some of my favorites too!

And yes! better late than never, as evidenced by the lateness of my own response! ;)