Reviews with content warning for Kidnapping - The Eyre Affair

Honestly, this was a wild and wack ride but I really enjoyed it. I liked the literary elements alongside the funky time/history parts. Keen to see what happens in the next book.

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mjay29's review

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adventurous funny lighthearted slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

I liked the idea of the book I just found it very slow and was disappointed in the lack of character development. The pacing ruined the "tense" adventure part of the book for me, the author just droned on too long and had too many "filler" pages after a twist or advancement in the plot. Once the villain had advanced in his plans I wanted that story line to play out more steady and fast not be side lined by the main characters date night.

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kappafrog's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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nytephoenyx's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

What to say about Thursday Next? The Eyre Affair is clever, witty, creative, and interesting. The second read was just as much fun as my first.

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thrabenvaliant's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

I thoroughly enjoyed this reference-filled inside joke of a "time travel" sci-fi. There were 100 references I didn't know, but didn't get in the way. I enjoyed learning about Jane Eyre through the story of this book. I'm left mildly wondering what is real, but maybe Jane Eyre will go on my reading list and things will get clearer.

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thereadinghammock's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The story has good bones, the concept really intriguing, but I really feel like this book suffered from "No one told Fforde to trim down the storyline and spread some of the world building and side plots to other books." The world building is layered and intricate, but the motives and character building fell so one dimensional. The logic behind everyone's motives feels so.....flat? Like Hades is evil, for the sake of being evil? As a path to fame and notoriety? It feels so shallow. And I want more from Thursday. Like I feel like as a character, she's just there and things are happening to her?

Like 90% of the stuff with the Crimea felt unnecessary until Jack Shit (I'm sure it's spelled differently, but I only listened to the audio book) and the lasers. But I'm sure there could've been something else to add in to make that make sense. The love story? I love a good romance, but it felt so unnecessary. And the Dodos? Cute, but again, very unnecessary. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Thursday in cahoots with Mr. Rochester, but it took so long to get to the actual plot of this book that I was bored by the time we got there.

Overall, the story was written well, but suffered from too much plot for someone with my taste.

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