It’s hard to get into too much detail without spoiling anything, but think about Mr. The parallels are everywhere between the characters, but what’s interesting is how the story adapts to the environment. Mason, now a government official instead of a visitor from the Caribbean. And of course, how can we forget Bianca Ingram (formerly Blanche) and her family, or Mr.
Fairfax replacement, but she gets her own story as well (complete with a bit of a side romance!). Iris Xiao, the ship’s first officer, is a Mrs.
It starts with the characters – we still have Grace Poole, but she’s an officer on the ship, and not nearly as useless as the original. Everything seems pretty perfect until she hears strange noises in the night, meets the woman everyone thinks Hugo will marry (for business, of course), and discovers a secret Hugo has been keeping within the bowels (or maybe the attic) of the ship.īut that’s where the two stories diverge. Out of the blue, Stella lands a job on a small private ship with only about eight souls on board. However, she gets far more joy out of teaching kids, and so has been looking for work elsewhere. The story remains fairly close to the original at the outset, so I won’t bore you with all the details, but Stella, who is just about eighteen, has been working as an engineer on her ship, the poorest of the fleet that escaped Earth after a supervolcano exploded, causing a second Ice Age about two hundred years earlier. What drew me to this one, however, was the setting – Jane Eyre in space! In Brightly Burning, we follow Stella Ainsley as she moves from her ship and job as engineer to a private ship orbiting the moon, The Rochester, and a new position as tutor to Tessa, the ten (and three-quarters!) year old sister of twenty-year-old Hugo Fairfax.
Revamped classics and fairy tales are still big, especially in the YA world, and apparently the world needed another Jane Eyre retelling.
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