Review: Ironskin by Tina Connolly

Title: Ironskin

Series: Ironskin #1

Author: Tina Connolly 

Publisher: Tor Books

Publication Date: October 02, 2012

Genre:  Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance

Reading Source: NetGalley

Reading Level: 12+  

Format: ebook

Cover Art: 4/5
Overall: 2.5/5

Goodreads: 

Jane Eliot wears an iron mask. 

It’s the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain—the ironskin. 

When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a "delicate situation"—a child born during the Great War—Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help. 

Teaching the unruly Dorie to suppress her curse is hard enough; she certainly didn’t expect to fall for the girl’s father, the enigmatic artist Edward Rochart. But her blossoming crush is stifled by her own scars, and by his parade of women. Ugly women, who enter his closed studio...and come out as beautiful as the fey. 

Jane knows Rochart cannot love her, just as she knows that she must wear iron for the rest of her life. But what if neither of these things is true? Step by step Jane unlocks the secrets of her new life—and discovers just how far she will go to become whole again.

Review:

Cursed by the fey war, Jane wears an iron mask to contain the curse and to hide her scar.

She takes up a job for Edward Rochart. Being governess to Mr. Rochart's daughter is not what she thought it would be.

This is a retelling of Jane Eyre, which I have not read, so I can't compare how alike the two are, but I do know what the book is about.

The cover! Yeah it's amazing, but everyone knows how I like my covers! I liked the Gothic atmosphere of it, and the beginning was promising, but it sort of slowed down and went downhill form there. The last half of the book stood at a standstill for me. I was confused and found myself rereading pages back. There was nothing wrong with the heroine Jane. And I liked Dorie somewhat, I liked the interactions between Jane and Dorie. It was the romance didn't do it for me, it was weird and creepy. 

 I don't know if I'm going to be picking up the next book. 

You might enjoy it if you like classics.

Thank you to Tor Books and NetGally for this ARC.