I give this book points for originality! 3.5 stars 
 Earlier this year I 
 read and loved Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye 
 . A fellow book blogger suggested I might like to give The Eyre Affair a try, and I'm glad I did because, overall, it's a fun read. 
 However, unlike Jane Steele, you really do need to have read Jane Eyre to get much from The Eyre Affair. A lot of the humour, not to mention some significant plot points, hinge on you having prior knowledge of the plot of Jane Eyre. 
 This book has one of the most inventive speculative fiction set-ups I've come across for a while. However, I do wonder if it's a bit too clever for its own good. And after the fifth "comedy" character name, I reached saturation point. 
 Definitely one for fans of literature and mysteries with a tolerance for the bizarre.