Jenna Starborn Book

This book slavishly follows Jane Eyre, upon which it is based. Even though it's been several years since I last read Jane Eyre, I recognized, almost scene for scene everything in this homage to the original.

Now, as someone whose writing frequently draws upon myth or fairy tale, I have no problem with basing a new work on something older. Unfortunately, taking an old book, even a classic you adore, and creating a [psuedo-]science-fiction setting in which to translate, almost word-for-word, the original story is not what I expect when a novel claims to draw inspiration from a prior work. This novel not only follows the original too closely, it does so to the detriment of the story. Characterizations appropriate to the time at which Jane Eyre was published, 1847, simply didn't work in the multi-planet space-faring future posited by Shinn, despite her conceit that replaced the British class system with one based on property rights.