The Eyre Affair reaction to the new ending for "Jane Eyre" is positive, but there are other repercussions, including Goliath's fury. The book was generally acclaimed, with critics calling it "playfully irreverent", "delightfully daft", "whoppingly imaginative", and "a work of ... startling originality". The "genre-busting" novel spans numerous types of literature, with critics identifying aspects of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, satire, romance, and thriller. This led one critic to jokingly suggest that Fforde "must have jotted a bundle of unrelated ideas on slips of paper", and, "instead of tossing them in a hat and choosing a few topics as the focus of his
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