The story was interesting but at times it moved along very slowly. It seemed to take forever to unfold past events. Our club did get some good discussion going.

Our book club had recently read "The 13th Tale" by Diane Setterfield, which included many references to "Jane Eyre". The discussion questions also referred to "Jane Eyre" and other gothic novels. We discovered that none of us had ever read "Jane Eyre", so I chose it for the June book. I was surprised how engrossed I became in a story written so long ago and which used a much different style of writing than we are used to. I came to enjoy the "flowery and formal" writing style and conversations that the characters had. Jane was ahead of her time in that she didn't give in to social and emotional pressures that were placed on her. She stood up for herself, an unusual characteristic for women of Victorian times. At times she had many inner struggles and I thought she might give in to St John Rivers' demands.I was glad she didn't let him bully her into his proposal. I enjoyed the mystery of Thornfield, although it was fairly tame compared to more modern mystery novels. All in all an enjoyable book.