Mycroft, the professor of the family has designed some pretty cool stuff.

And we also get to meet up with some of the other characters, one being the uncle of Thursday, Mycroft Next. After her job to look for a stolen text goes wrong, Thursday in convinced by her future self to take a job in Swindon, travelling across time and space is again not a strange occurrence! From that point on everything happens in and around Swindon. It is on Thursday the story focuses and she is also used as the point-of-view for storytelling. These detectives specialize in crimes concerning books, be it from stolen works to copyright infringement. The creation of this alternate world was grand but not over the top, every piece fit into the puzzle and gave a fascinating sense.Īnd then there is Thursday Next, Crimean war veteran turned literary detective. Technology has taken quite a leap forward in means of getting you kits to do somehow cloning and sequencing and bringing back extinct animals “plock plock”. But there is more to the world that just the two above mentioned events. The Eyre Affair takes place in an alternate version of 1985 England, where the Crimean war still continues between Russia and England, and where Wales has declared independence. Meeting Thursday from the beginning is worth your time. Having be dropped right smack into the action of The Woman Who Died a Lot (which was released earlier this year by Hodder and Stoughton) and being convinced that the Thursday Next series was a series that I really wanted to read, Lee offered me this book to review and I am pleased, well more than pleased. Yes truly, The Eyre Affair is mad a pants in the best, terrifically possible way. But solving crimes against literature isn't easy when you also have to find time to halt the Crimean War, persuade the man you love to marry you, and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Thursday sets out to find a way into the book to repair the damage. Acheron Hades has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them ransom. There is another 1985, where London’s criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of a new crime wave’s Mr Big.

The eyre affair series