Where would science fiction be without this book? Suddenly a lot of choices in sci fi make sense after reading this book.

An odd little story. The decision to not surround dialogue with punctuation marks was strange, but as the story went on it made sense. For a book from the 1950‘s it‘s almost scary how well it can put you in the perspective of a child, how much it writes that children should be valued and protected, and how we still need to hear that.

Well that‘s a day and 15 hours I‘m never getting back.

Most of the book prior to the events of Jane Eyre and pretty good and original. Afterwards it kind of drags on.

Very nice smooth, atmospheric writing. The first half of the book recalling Gemma‘s childhood was probably the best part, although the second half still had good parts. The attention to environments is amazing.

Very sad and wistful, and surreal at times.

It‘s a quick read, with some fun Easter Eggs for Bronte and Jane Eyre fans alike.

What a lot of modern adaptations of “Jane Eyre” fail to do or even attempt is something done quite well in this book: how creepy and awkward Jane and Edward‘s relationship would be, especially in the 21st century.

Reminiscent of the fairy tale picture books from my childhood, Nagabe‘s “The Girl from the Other Side,” is a gorgeously illustrated comic with a seemingly simple (at first) story.