Overall, I enjoyed this book. I loved the alternative history aspect of it as well as the idea of there being a police force dedicated to protecting literature. Were Literary Detective a real thing, I would likely throw my hat in the ring for a job as one. And the idea of being able to enter your favorite books or have literary characters come out into the real world was an intriguing one. After all, who wouldn't want to meet their favorite character from a book? It was a good blend of mystery and action with a dash of romance without any one of those genres being too dominant. The characters and the world were well fleshed out and struck the balance of having everyone you meet, even the bad guys, be intriguing enough to want to know more about without too much of the book being taken up with setting up this alternative world.

There was one thing that kept this from being a five star for me and that is the main plot point as advertised on the back of book didn't happen until less than the last quarter of the book. With the title this book has, I expected to meet Jane early on and have it be a cat and mouse between Thursday and Hades to get her back. While the cat and mouse aspect was still there though, most of the first part was trying to save a character from a lesser known Dickens novel rather than Jane. I have never read Jane Eyre and I honestly will likely never do so, especially since the novel was laid out for me in this book through a conversation with Thursday and her partner Bowden. Having the title it does though I did expect her to play more of a part than she did. In truth, we saw and heard more of and from Rochester than we did Jane and even then the recovery seemed a bit rushed and anti-climactic. Which is not to say the rest of the book wasn't enjoyable because it was. It just seemed the title was a bit misleading as well as the description on the back of the book.

I would have also liked to hear more about Hades and how or what he was but that could be something that comes later in the series as well as development on the other villains in the story. I also imagine that we will learn more about the Next family as it develops or at least I hope so. That and we hear more from other characters, especially Spike. Despite that one main point, I enjoyed it and will read the others in the series since a few of those have also caught my eye. I will just be sure to read them with an open mind and take the description on the back of the book with a grain of salt since it may prove to be like this one and not really match up to the story within.