The eyre affair review

The Eyre Affair is a perfect read for those summer times that are more frustrating than relaxing – a great escape and a grand adventure.

Great Britain circa time travel is routine, cloning is a reality dodos are the resurrected pet of choice , and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police.

Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude. Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel.

Enter Thursday Next.

But this book presents Rochester as kind, noble, good, even self-sacrificing, and it de-emphasizes the Gothic darkness that is such an important.

She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax.

Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids. Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe.

I was recommended The Eyre Affair by one of my friends at university and I have to say it was a complete win for me. I loved the concept and the characters all the way through this book. It was a great read and although it has taken me the entire month to read I thoroughly enjoyed it and was hooked by the storyline.