Book Review: The Eyre Affair

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.5★

This book did sound so up my alley and I’m a bit worried because it is a very busy book , so maybe it wasn’t the right book to start in a very active holiday. I’m hoping my rating is fair.

I found it very hard to get into the start -as I said busy. It reminded me of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts but the style was much colder – I just couldn’t warm to any of the characters at all. That did make it a struggle for me to keep going with the read.

However, Every time I would consider giving up there would be another witticism

“I was in ’78 recently,” he announced. “I brought you this.”
He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn’t recognize the title.
“Didn’t they split in ’70?”
“Not always. How are things?”

or some lines that were laugh out loud funny;

“Can’t we wait for the Chronoguard?”
“They’d never get here in time. It’s easy. A lobotomised monkey could do it.”
“And where are we going to get a lobotomised monkey at this time of night”

The wild and uncertain tone of the book improved for me at around 64% – although I didn’t really like the ending.

So it was a real mixed bag and I may have to read another Fforde to decide if I like his style or not.