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Jane Eyrotica

By: Charlotte Brontë, Karena Rose
Narrated by: Heather Wilds
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An erotic retelling of a timeless literary classic.

Jane Eyre has lived a sheltered, callous life. Orphaned at a young age and despised by her remaining family, she is shipped off to Lowood School and can only dream of tenderness and affection. Upon accepting a governess position at Thornfield Hall, a world of passion, desire, and sex explodes before her naive eyes in the form of the brooding, dashing master of the house: Mr. Rochester. Jane finds herself succumbing to his savage, brutal lust and losing herself in the intense heat of her yearning. Jane believes that beneath Mr. Rochester's dark, handsome, and sometimes brutal exterior there must be a heart, and she is desperate to find love in his hungry caresses. But then, she discovers something in the attic...and her world is turned upside down forever.

In this cleverly retold classic, sex collides with corsets in a burst of erotic, mash-up fiction, bringing the searing heat of Fifty Shades of Grey to the dark secrets of one of literature's finest novels, Jane Eyre.

©2012 Karena Rose (P)2012 Audible, Inc. BDSM Romance Comedy

Editorial reviews

The sexual charge many read between the lines in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is has been made much more intimate, electrifying, satisfying, and oh, so, quite un-Victorian. There is more to the tale and couplings than the will-they-or-won’t-they (they will!) of Jane and Mr. Rochester. Heather Wilds, veteran of the London stage, as well as television and film, ranges from innocence to cruelty from yearning to culmination as she performs this erotic mashup of a literary classic many have read and the story of sexual appetites fulfilled most of them imagined.
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I really enjoyed the book from start to finish. Although I don't think it is erotic more a historical romance with some resonable sex scenes. The narrator did an excellent job with the delivery of the story. Well worth the credit.

I Enjoyed The Book

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Jane Eyrotica was great. I love erotic literature as well as classic lit so combining the two for me was a win. And yes I know the purist among us will be utterly put out but for me, I'm all smiles and seeing the lord of the manner house in a different light. I could so be a governess under that type of master.

I love a classic with a twist!

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What disappointed you about Jane Eyrotica?

The "revision" is very "coy" unable to decide what it wants to be. Was it going to be full-fledged erotica or was it going to be true to the original novel? My thinking is if you are going to bring the erotic to this story, you might as well go all out: you are already tampering with the novel might as well just delight in making it raunchy. But this is a book that giggles at its own "naughtiness" and is really just one big yawn.

What was most disappointing about Charlotte Bronte and Karena Rose ’s story?

see above

What about Heather Wilds’s performance did you like?

Heather Wild gives a noble performance and I suspect that it is her reading that inspired me to finish the book. She has a good voice, and does a good job performing the northern English accent.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Jane Eyrotica?

I don't know if I would cut, but I would certainly advise differently. Lovers of "Jane Eyre" already have the book memorized so staying loyal to the original with naked-bits thrown in wouldn't appeal to that audience. Those who read erotica would expect this version of Jane Eyre to be much more. . . well. . . erotic--not the occasional bodice ripping in a ditch when it seems to "fit nicely" into the original narrative. I would have encouraged this writer to make the novel more her own--add scenes, give behind the scenes (perhaps more Rochester sneaking into Jane's room), have Jane walk in on St. John and Rosamond doing the nasty in the school room. When I think of this book, I just think it is a bit like a turkey dinner (something we all love and is a traditional meal we indulge in) with hamburger chunks taped on the outside. It just doesn't work and it isn't very edible.

Any additional comments?

It was fun, but I wouldn't recommend it. The reader was great--will look for her other works

Just bad trash (and not in a good way)

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It’s difficult to mix this beautiful love story with kinky sex scenes because it takes away from the subtle and pure love between the two characters.

Doesn’t match

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I bought this book looking for a fun, sexy, campy "romp". I wanted to imagine what those prim and proper characters from one of my favourite novels were REALLY up to, the bits Bronte wouldn't tell us. I wanted to see taboos broken. I wanted sex to explode off every page.

What I got was a seriously abridged version of the classic with seven or eight sex scenes added in. That's less than one sex scene per hour. You cannot call that erotica. And the sex is so...bland. It's all male/female, for starters. And no threesomes, groups, etc. No voyeurism. No kink. Sure, a riding crop makes a token appearance (it doesn't really get used), and at once point Jane's hands are bound above her head with a bed curtain tie. Yawn.

On the plus side, the reader was very good. She might be the only reason I finished the book.

Bland

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