by Charlotte Bronte/Adapted by Amy Corzine
ages: 12+
First sentence: “Now that typhus has felled both my sister and her husband, we must look after their child.”
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I read Jane Eyre a couple of years ago, and found that I really enjoyed it. So, when my in person book group decided to read it for this month’s book, I figured I’d give the graphic novel a try, just to see how it held up.

And while I found that the pictures were a poor substitute for the narration, I really quite enjoyed it.

The drawings were easy enough to follow, and the book was stripped down to it’s basic elements: Jane’s perseverance and the love story with Mr. Rochester. It’s not a bad thing to have the book taken down to those bare elements; in fact it makes them shine by putting them in center stage. The ending, after she finds Mr. Rochester again, was quite poignant.

It’s a good introduction to the classic, however I wonder if by doing it this way, too many people will read the graphic novel and think that they don’t need to go read the book now. And that would be a shame.