The Eyre Affair

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: When I came first came across the books, I was excited and intrigued. I have 5 young children who are avid readers (one an aspiring author) so I am always on the lookout for books that are imaginative, fun, and interesting. This seemed like it might fit. The biggest problem is the gratuitous profanity. There is no way I can share this book with my children when, for reasons not comprehensible, the author felt it necessary to through in f***. Maybe it makes it "more real". WRONG! The story also bogs down with the redundancy of Thursday's post-traumatic stress syndrome. It's okay to allude to some past experience and then later come back and clarify it or resolve it. But to go on and on is a tragedy for the reader.
The sequel "Lost in a Good Book", fortunately has the language cleaned up but it is extremely slow in places where we have to continually relive the heroine's past over and over again. It's even worse in this book.
As far as the imaginative and inventive, it is okay. After all nonsense can be fun. But the author sometimes can't quite make it work smoothly and coherently.
I usually give an author a second chance if I don't like the first book. I happened to get both at the same time. I will not be buying the third.