Escaping Mr. Rochester

here's the situation. this book suffered greatly because of it being a retelling of jane eyre rather than it's own unique original story. the core of what make jane eyre a good story and what make miss eyre the woman she is was entirely absent from this. brontë's jane is flavored by her isolated, impoverished, and neglected childhood coming head-to-head with her strong willed yet modest countenance—jane who never speaks out of turn. mckinney's jane is in most ways the exact opposite and the way she navigates this story would have given any regency era governess a swift kick out the door into destitution. however, if you look at all of this as if it's not jane eyre at all (removing the expectations of regency era propriety, socioeconomics, and historical aspect), it's a decent enough story and would have been a 3/5.