Wide Sargasso Sea

While this is an effectively sad story about a girl who just can't get a break in life, it didn't work for me as a backstory to Jane Eyre nor did it particularly impress me on its own. While the events aren't unlikely to be the things that let to the state that they are in the classic, the way it was presented was too rushed and jumped too much in two places to naturally lead into it. I could imagine what Antoinette and even Rochester experienced, but I didn't feel it. It didn't didn't work as the revelation that it should be and some little things like the name change felt kind of forced. On it's own, it wasn't a bad story. A little too short and distressing for me to fully enjoy it, but I liked how the themes of not feeling like you belong somewhere, due to culture or other aspects, colonialism and harmful marriages were explored.