At one memorable moment, he butts in to frantically hope that Josephine’s abuela isn’t watching Josephine get hot and heavy with one of her romantic interests.ĥ. It’s so like the TV show that even the Jane the Virgin Narrator shows up, making regular appearances to interrupt and comment on the action of the plot.

Martin suspects Rake is the crime lord Sin Sombre! Josephine’s mother, Zara, once again stumbles across her father, the famous stage actor Ronaldo! Basically every piece of it will feel familiar, except that it’s set in 1900.Ĥ. Snow Falling is exactly like Jane the Virgin! The protagonist Josephine has an identical arc to early parts of the Jane the Virgin TV show: She’s caught in a love triangle between the well-to-do but possibly criminal hotelier, Rake, and the dashing, compassionate Pinkerton detective, Martin. The best novel of the century.” Never change, Rogelio.ģ. You can tell by the nice things he says on the book’s back cover: “BRILLIANT. Please, please make ReVulva the next Jane the Virgin tie-in publication.Ģ. And Professor Donaldson is credited as the author of a book called ReVulva: Locked and Loaded. For instance: Jane gets a really lovely blurb from her former writing professor Marlene Donaldson. In fact, this stuff is really the highlight of the book, and the most fun parts are the little things intended for faithful viewers of the show. It’s a faithful representation of the book we see on the show, from cover art to author bio to celebratory blurbs, and from the outside nothing about it would betray that it’s actually written by anyone other than Jane Villanueva. And there are a few things in Snow Falling that feel like intriguing suggestions about where the show is going.ġ. If you’re a Jane the Virgin fan, though, it’s sort of fun. In keeping with Jane the Virgin’s over-the-top metafictional winking, Snow Falling is not just a fictional book from inside Jane Villanueva’s fictional world - it’s also an actual book you can buy, and read! It’s not a great book, to be clear. (And Isabel Allende, who showed up at the party to share some wisdom about grief and passion, and who was also there because she’d seen some cute nude selfies on Twitter advertising the event.)

Jane’s debut novel, Snow Falling, was finally released in the latest episode of Jane the Virgin, and it came with all the fanfare of a dramatic book party and a romantic break-up.

Jane Gloriana Villanueva is now a published author.

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