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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Very fun world-building book, with connections to literature.
I thought he characters are a bit too Victorian and bland. but the world building is very interesting and the relationship between fiction and reality is fun, as well as the time travel.
What a brilliantly fun start to a series! I just read Jane Eyre for the first time this year and this book made me want to read again. Thursday Next is a great character and I can’t wait to read the next books in the series.
This was just a bit too strange for me. It involves books, time travel and a prose portal which as a book lover should have had me hooked but I just never got into it.
This was just as much fun to read a second time. I absolutely love Jasper Fforde.
Weird. Some parts were wonderful, but mostly it was weird.
I chuckled my way through this book and enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek humor immensely.
Yes! This was so GREAT! An alternative 1980s Britain with a complicated bureaucracy of Special Ops, a fanatical enthusiasm for literature, time travel, and a shadowy corporation trying to manipulate everything? Yes, thank you. The little scenes of this universe are what really build a surreal, almost "weird fiction," tone - Shakespeare plays getting the Rocky Horror treatment, literary terrorists, mind bending time warps. Thousands of people paying candlelight vigil to the kidnapped Jane Eyre, now, that's a world I'd like to live in. A+ for adventure and absurdism.
Really 2.5 stars. I love the idea of going into books, but this story never really grabbed me like I wanted. The world building didn't work for me and I never really connected to it.
this was very fun and silly in a good way. i feel like i’ve read jane eyre now.