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yoannna 's review for:
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
Can't really make up my mind about this one. It was an easy read and quite fun at times. But I guess something inside my head broke when I started writing and editing myself and now I can't shut it off. So my main issues with this book are two:
First, there's constant head-hopping and a lot of details given from a first person POV when it's not possible, e.g. not possible to know exactly what damage has been done to your car while you're in the process of damaging it! Also not possible without particular super powers (which I have absolutely nothing against, but Thursday doesn't have those) - knowing what people are doing after you've left the situation, nor what they are thinking and how they are thinking it exactly, unless they've expressed it some way.
Second, I had a huge issue with the main villain. I can understand that there's this ultimate bad guy that everyone fears, but the fact there is exactly zero explanation of how come he's such a baddie and what exactly powers he has peeved the hell out of me. Obviously, if the story is told in first person, we should only know as much as Thursday does, but seeing how this rule is being consistently disregarded, and that she is actually the one person closest to Hades, well...
I forgo all the crazy names throughout the book - I had a total kick out of the appearance of Jack Schitt - but some of them were too much.
I did enjoy the foray into a world where people are actually crazy about literature, although it was - as a friend recently pointed out - a little meta: a book telling us how great and important books are? I guess I do enjoy the fact that in our reality books still are a mark of something special, and not just the latest trendy obsession.
First, there's constant head-hopping and a lot of details given from a first person POV when it's not possible, e.g. not possible to know exactly what damage has been done to your car while you're in the process of damaging it! Also not possible without particular super powers (which I have absolutely nothing against, but Thursday doesn't have those) - knowing what people are doing after you've left the situation, nor what they are thinking and how they are thinking it exactly, unless they've expressed it some way.
Second, I had a huge issue with the main villain. I can understand that there's this ultimate bad guy that everyone fears, but the fact there is exactly zero explanation of how come he's such a baddie and what exactly powers he has peeved the hell out of me. Obviously, if the story is told in first person, we should only know as much as Thursday does, but seeing how this rule is being consistently disregarded, and that she is actually the one person closest to Hades, well...
I forgo all the crazy names throughout the book - I had a total kick out of the appearance of Jack Schitt - but some of them were too much.
I did enjoy the foray into a world where people are actually crazy about literature, although it was - as a friend recently pointed out - a little meta: a book telling us how great and important books are? I guess I do enjoy the fact that in our reality books still are a mark of something special, and not just the latest trendy obsession.