Becoming Jane Eyre

I am about 80 pages into this novel by Sheila Kohler and I think I have pretty much had it. It's not that it's a bad book - it's just not my style. The novel seems to be a well-researched fictionalization of Charlotte Bronte's life, but there's the thing - I was never a huge fan of any of the Brontes. I don't believe I've ever read an entire novel any of them wrote, although I know I've read some of their poetry. I know, I know, that makes me a bad woman-English major, but all their stuff was just so... melodramatic, and dreamy, and... girly.

To Kohler's credit, this novel reads like a Bronte novel, and I assume that was her intention. As I read I often felt like I was seeing the action through a mist, moving from vignette to vignette as wading through a fog... it just isn't my style of writing. But those of you who loved Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights will probably love this novel, so I would recommend it to you. It just isn't for me.

Becoming Jane Eyre: A Novel (Penguin Original)