Jane Slayre: The Literary Classic... With a Blood-Sucking Twist Review
I have always been a fan of both the classics and paranormal fiction, but I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about them mashed together. Jane Slayre made up my mind for me. I love it! Sherrie Browning Erwin stays true to the writing style of the original, but skillfully works in an edgy paranormal flair.
(*Literary Purists, avert your eyes*) The paranormal elements actually make some of the Jane Slayre scenes more entertaining to read than the originals! This book has the same great characters and timeless romance, but with added entertainment value. You can't go wrong.
I highly recommend this book to anyone. And Literary Purists: it just might convince you, too.
Jane Slayre: The Literary Classic... With a Blood-Sucking Twist Overview
In the bestselling tradition of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, this clever and funny literary mash-up rewrites Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre so that Jane is a vampire slayer and Rochester's wife is a werewolf.
Raised by vampyre relatives, Jane grows to resent the lifestyle's effect on her upbringing. No sunlight, nighttime hours, and a diet of bloody red meat is no way for a mortal girl to live. Things change for Jane when the ghost of her uncle visits her, imparts her parents' slayer history, and charges her with the responsibility of striking out to find others of her kind and learn the slayer ways. After trying her luck at a school full of zombies, Jane finds a position as a governess, where she meets and falls in love with Mr. Rochester. But evil strikes in the form of Mr. Rochester's first wife, a violent werewolf he keeps locked in the attic. Jane departs to study the slayer tradition with her cousins, but finds herself yearning to reunite with Mr. Rochester. She returns to find that Mr. Rochester has been bitten by the werewolf, and only she can release him from his curse.
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Customer Reviews
This Is How It Should Be Done - Adina Bernstein - New York
The recent trend of monster classic mashups has created some good ones and some bad ones.
Jane Slayre is good one, however, purists might not like it.
The author seamlessly blends Charlotte Bronte's classic novel with monsters and Buffy The Vampire Slayer (one of my favorite TV shows from the 90's)
I loved it.
Outstanding! - Bronte fan -
I LOVED this mash-up of Jane Eyre. Just like reading Charlotte Bronte, but with the addition of vampires, zombies, and werewolves. Great Bronte "voice" - the author REALLY nailed it!
Brilliantly funny--great read - dede - Dallas, Texas
LOVED this book! Jane Eyre is one of my favorites of the classics, but this twist was laugh-out-loud fun. The humor is brilliant and personally, I was glad to see Jane finally kick some butt. You don't have to be a fan of the classics to enjoy this book, it's definitely for everyone who loves good tongue-in-cheek humor.
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