Rebecca’s Reviews > The Eyre Affair > Status Update

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.”

Having to tell a spouse that their husband turned into a vampire and you had to decapitate them and burn their body? Can't imagine that would be a great conversation.

“Every day is a beautiful day, Miss Next. The name’s Stoker—” He pulled out onto the Stratton bypass. “—SpecOps-17: Vampire and Werewolf Disposal Operations. Suckers and biters, they call us. My friends call me Spike. You,” he added with a broad grin, “can call me Spike.”

"I opened the door on the security chain and found a small man in a lumpy corduroy suit. He was holding a dog-eared ID for me to see and politely raised his hat with a nervous smile. The Baconians were quite mad but for the most part harmless. Their purpose in life was to prove that Francis Bacon and not Will Shakespeare had penned the greatest plays in the English language."