Charlotte Brontë who wrote Jane Eyre and lived the life of a parson's daughter could in fact be the adventurous heroine from Laura Joh Rowland's novel, 'The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë. But once we got our heads around the concept Rowland was trying to sell us, most enjoyed the read.Rowland has toyed with the Brontë family and created a whole new world of fictionalised high adventure and espionage based on research she did on Charlotte Brontë some years ago.
Did it work? Well, we'll have to let you be the judge on that score. Everyone has their own take on the classics and let's just say that most of our readers enjoyed the story, although it did have many flaws throughout. But, if you skip over these and don't think too hard about them and simply read the book as a high adventure tale, then we are sure you will enjoy the story as much as some of us did. We found that the further along in the story we journeyed the better it became. Rowland made good use of tension throughout and kept our hearts pounding in places.
We did wonder if Charlotte and her family would actually ever put themselves in such perilous situations, but for the sake of the story, we decided not to challenge this too much.
Overall, we recommend this book. It is a good read. The storyline is interesting and creative and everything linked up. Charlotte manages to involve herself and interacts with some big names throughout story and the tale is very entertaining. It is not your run of the mill, modern day espionage story and Rowland does a great job authenticating the language used throughout. We all agreed the author did a great job and believed that Charlotte could have been the narrator of the story.
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http://www.laurajohrowland.com/
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