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Reviewed by Karen Pirnot for Readers' Favorite
This is such a fun read! In "A Breath of Eyre", author Eve Marie Mont has taken the reader back in time to put her main character Emma Townsend squarely in the circumstances of Jane Eyre. It is Emma's 16th birthday and Emma is struggling to make even a modicum of sense of her current life. Her mother is dead. Her father has remarried and Emma considers her new stepmother more of a nuisance than a friend. Emma has a crush on Gray Newman but he seems much more interested in the fancy socialites at the school Emma attends than he does in the plain and practical Emma Townsend. When Emma begins her sophomore year at the elite school, she is roomed with another misfit who knows she does not belong. When the girls pair up to show the socialites they are serious about being heard at the school, chaos ensues and Emma is transported back in time to a place in which motivations and emotions are equally elusive.
Mont skillfully develops her characters, both the likeable and the unlikeable. Teens will definitely identity with the confused 16 year old character of Emma and older adults will be infused with memories of their own chaotic teenage years. The interweaving of the Jane Eyre story into a modern day setting is nothing short of brilliant and the plot keeps a pace in which the reader will find it difficult not to try to squeeze in "just one more chapter." This book was a find and it is one I will pass down to my friends.
