![]() ![]() What remains constant through each possible narrative is sensible, undaunted Jane, who is determined to make sense of the world she’s faced with, even when she is paralyzed by grief. Another takes her into a gothic horror story. One decision leads Jane into a spy thriller. ![]() Why pick one road, it demands, when you could pick all of them? Having spent its first 84 pages providing Jane with a plethora of potential mysteries to investigate, the narrative pivots on a single moment of decision and then spins out from there into several parallel timelines, unraveling what might ensue from every choice she makes. Or, if you really want to stretch, there’s the Northanger Abbey direction, where the whole story turns out to be the product of the heroine’s over-active imagination.īut Jane, Unlimited romps joyously over all of these expectations. There’s the Rebecca direction, where the heroine wins the love of the saturnine master of the house, only to be briefly foiled by his dead ex-wife. There’s the Jane Eyre direction, where the heroine wins the love of the saturnine master of the house, only to be briefly foiled by his still-living ex-wife. ![]() If you’re a fan of gothic great house books, you know there are only a few directions for Jane, Unlimited to go in. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark ![]()
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