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Review: Jane of Fire - Jessica Penot

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Review: Jane of Fire - Book #2 Tattooed Girl Series - Jessica Penot - December 2018 Jane of Fire continues from the first book Jane of Air which introduced us to Jane who has been employed at Thornfield Hall.  Jane has fallen in love no matter how much she was warned against with Edward Rochester. In this book, Jane has learned that Edward is engaged to Blanche and that he is following his families footsteps by not marrying people they love as the ones they love truly tend to die. Jane is more than aware of the curse as she discovered Lilliana's letters and Bertha's diary. A few fires happen, and injuries arise at Thornfield that are related to Bertha's death. When Jane is called back to her foster mother's deathbed , she discovers that she had an uncle who had been searching for all these years and Jane learns the real truth of whom she is and a bit about her tattoo. I was hoping for a bit more explanation but maybe next book. While this is ha...

Review: Jane of Air - Jessica Penot

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Review: Jane of Air - Book #1 The Tattooed Girl - Jessica Penot - October 2018 One of my all-time classic novels happen to be Jane Eyre, and a reading weakness I have is renditions of classics and fairytales. So when I saw this one, Jane of Air loosely based on Jane Eyre, I had to read it straight away. OMG, I loved it so much, we have Jane who is a foster child who gets a job at Thornfield Estate looking after Edward's grandmother Adele. We have the main story of Jane and Edward like as in Jane Eyre, but of course, this book has its twists that didn't get answered in the first book but am hoping we do get the answers to our questions. When Jane was found abandoned she had a tattoo on her back, and as she has grown older, the tattoo has taken a life of its own by adding more to the design which I am hoping in Book #2 we learn the meaning behind the tattoo and who Jane's parents were as like in the OG Jane Eyre, Jane had family she never knew s...