A review by abookishtype
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder

4.0

Mark Hodder’s The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack takes the grandfather paradox and runs with it in spectacular fashion. It starts out as a steampunk novel that uses historical figures as characters (such as Sir Richard Francis Burton, Algernon Swinburne, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel), but it becomes rapidly apparent that this novel is more than that when we start to learn the history and motivations of the eponymous Spring Heeled Jack. I would have finished this book sooner, but I had to keep running to Wikipedia to find out what really happened with these characters. As I read, I was astounded to see just how much actual history Hodder incorporated into his fiction. It’s amazing what Hodder’s done just by throwing a time traveler into the mix...

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