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I really loved this story. I admit I'm a huge Jane Austen fan so when I read the blurb for A Breath of Eyre I knew I had to read it. Mont takes an intriguing premise and breathes fresh air on it. Great writing and pacing keeps the story moving.

Emma is a scholarship student to a very expensive prep school. She's bored and wants something more and when she gets an old leather-bound copy of Jane Eyre, she falls in love with the story. Later, after she's struck by lightning, she finds herself transported to the story as Jane Eyre. This part of the story was my favorite. But there's something not quite the same with the version that's she living and the story we all know. While at Thornfield she finds that she has choices to make. Choices that can change the outcome of the story.

Gray is her childhood friend that ends up not being what the gossip makes him out to be. Emma isn't sure whether to trust her heart or continue to compare him to Mr. Rochester, who looks an awful lot like her English teacher. One thing I loved about this book is that it doesn't play up the school girl crush on her high school teacher but rather gives Emma choices that are more realistic. Her room-mate Michelle is outspoken but also shows some vulnerabilities that ring true. There's also the mean girl, Elise, who's almost too nasty. I kind of wanted to see a chip in her mean armor that wasn't just that she was a pot head.

Great premise with writing that sweeps you right along. I want more! There's two more books in this series. Next year Emma ends up in the Scarlet letter in the book A Touch of Scarlet. A total must read for fans of Austen and those who love a historical based YA with some paranormal elements.