I'd say 2 stars for the book, but I'm giving it an extra star because I love that cover. 
 A modern YA retelling of Jane Eyre that is very loyal to the original novel, minus the parts on Jane's experiences at the orphanage. Jane Eyre is Jane Moore, a 19-year old Sarah Lawrence drop-out who is hired as a nanny by brooding rock star Nico Rathburn (Edward Rochester). Jane is well-written and quite enjoyable, but obviously a lot of credit is due to Charlotte Bronte as April Lindner was incredibly faithful to the original novel, at least, plot-wise. That is probably the book's biggest weakness, as a lot of the themes in the original Jane Eyre, such as social class, gender relations, morality, etc. were specific to the time period in England that Bronte was writing in and when those Victorian themes are reintroduced in a modern American setting, it just came across as kind of absurd. Jane Moore's stiff, formal, prudish, and uh, Victorian behavior seemed completely incongruous with her American middle-class non-religious suburban upbringing. 
 One thing that Lindner didn't include in her re-telling is Jane Eyre's inherent sense of morality and and dignity, reinforced by her belief in God. But without that religious subtext and those complex themes, the book ends up being quite superficial, and Jane Moore comes across as flaky and confused, especially in the second half of the book, when taken out of its gothic Victorian context was mostly just bizarre. 
 I do wish that Lindner had taken more liberties with the story to make the characterizations more convincing in a contemporary setting but I did enjoy Jane, for the most part. Hopefully teenagers who read Lindner's take on Jane Eyre will be compelled to read the original too.