Status Updates From The Eyre Affair (Thursday N...

For all my joking, this is pretty much a retelling of Jane Eyre in a contemporary, alternate history setting. Pretty good, and probably more fun if you’re familiar with the original.

Healthy relationships in my trope-infested book? What have you done?!

Again, guesstimating.
It's gotten even more insane. There's some dystopic/existential horror undertones that need to be addressed.

Gotta guesstimate the percentage because I’m reading an omnibus.
No easy way to describe this fever dream. “Absurdist alternate history mystery with fantasy/steampunk/magitech elements” is the best I’ve come up with. And that doesn’t even get into the riot of tropes that is the rest of this book.

dude they had me for a minute with the 2016 joke

“maybe the bennett family could do with some thinning”
“PRIDE AND PREJUDICE???? YOU HEARTLESS MONSTER”

Imagine military leaders being able to jump into books. All of the damage they already do combined with being able to steal weapons that only exist in fantasy novels.

"Somehow “fucked up” made it seem more believable; we all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice. If Anton had been a baker and forgotten the yeast,nothing would have been made of it, but he would have fucked up just the same."

“My friends!” he began. “This is a very great day for science and a very bad one for Dickensian literature.”

“Don’t ever call me mad, Mycroft. I’m not mad, I’m just . . . well, differently moraled, that’s all.”