Author: Jasper FfordeCategory: Fiction
Series: Thursday Next #5
Series: Thursday Next #5
Rating: 8/10
After two years without a new Thursday Next novel, I devoured the newest entry into the series, which takes place fourteen years after the events of Something Rotten.
Thursday and Landen are reunited, and Goliath has resurrected itself. Spec-Ops has also disbanded most of its departments, and of course, Spec-Ops 27 was not one of those retained. But that's okay, because Thursday keeps busy, what with raising her three children, Friday, Tuesday, and Jenny. She's also running a successful carpet and flooring business.... all while doing secret Spec-Ops work and Jurisfiction work behind Landen's back. On top of leading a triple life, she's got to get Friday, the typical sloth-like teenage boy into the Chronoguard so that he can invent time travel and save the world as we know it.
Oh, and did I mention that she has two other Thursday Nexts working with her in Jurisfiction? Apparently, with Thursday's fame after the SuperHoop, the novelization of events was bound to happen, and there are two versions of herself in the book world: the more popular too-violent rough Thursday, and the quick-to-be-remaindered crunchy granola sensitive Thursday. Both are her cadets, and neither is well suited for the job. However, crunchy Thursday is easier to deal with, and she didn't go popping into the real world and sleeping with Landen.
While dealing with all this, Thursday has to stop the Council of Genres from ruining Pride and Prejudice for the sake of increasing readership rates. And super violent Thursday is helping them so she can take over Thursday's real life.
Fforde definitely hasn't lost his touch for quirky imaginative writing and I was constantly amazed at the stuff I was reading. You really have to wonder what kind of mind it takes to create these worlds within a world, and then hope that he never stops writing. However, this wasn't my favorite Thursday Next novel.
I had hoped to pick up where Something Rotten picked up, only to be jerked into the future. The characters reference things that occurred in The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco, which I assume occurs in the lost fourteen years before First Among Sequels. The book ends on a cliffhanger and I have no idea when the next book is coming out. Fforde even teasingly includes a note on the last page, listing several possible titles for the next Thursday Next novel, and one hints that it will take place before FAS. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there'll be some resolution to that cliffhanger, but if Fforde chooses to go back in time, it'll probably two Thursday Next novels before I find out what happens.
After two years without a new Thursday Next novel, I devoured the newest entry into the series, which takes place fourteen years after the events of Something Rotten.
Thursday and Landen are reunited, and Goliath has resurrected itself. Spec-Ops has also disbanded most of its departments, and of course, Spec-Ops 27 was not one of those retained. But that's okay, because Thursday keeps busy, what with raising her three children, Friday, Tuesday, and Jenny. She's also running a successful carpet and flooring business.... all while doing secret Spec-Ops work and Jurisfiction work behind Landen's back. On top of leading a triple life, she's got to get Friday, the typical sloth-like teenage boy into the Chronoguard so that he can invent time travel and save the world as we know it.
Oh, and did I mention that she has two other Thursday Nexts working with her in Jurisfiction? Apparently, with Thursday's fame after the SuperHoop, the novelization of events was bound to happen, and there are two versions of herself in the book world: the more popular too-violent rough Thursday, and the quick-to-be-remaindered crunchy granola sensitive Thursday. Both are her cadets, and neither is well suited for the job. However, crunchy Thursday is easier to deal with, and she didn't go popping into the real world and sleeping with Landen.
While dealing with all this, Thursday has to stop the Council of Genres from ruining Pride and Prejudice for the sake of increasing readership rates. And super violent Thursday is helping them so she can take over Thursday's real life.
Fforde definitely hasn't lost his touch for quirky imaginative writing and I was constantly amazed at the stuff I was reading. You really have to wonder what kind of mind it takes to create these worlds within a world, and then hope that he never stops writing. However, this wasn't my favorite Thursday Next novel.
I had hoped to pick up where Something Rotten picked up, only to be jerked into the future. The characters reference things that occurred in The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco, which I assume occurs in the lost fourteen years before First Among Sequels. The book ends on a cliffhanger and I have no idea when the next book is coming out. Fforde even teasingly includes a note on the last page, listing several possible titles for the next Thursday Next novel, and one hints that it will take place before FAS. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there'll be some resolution to that cliffhanger, but if Fforde chooses to go back in time, it'll probably two Thursday Next novels before I find out what happens.
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I am waiting very impatiently to hurry up and come into stores here, but it isn't out until 1 August! Grrr!
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