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jeriendhalSummary: In an England where literary rivalries are held with the same passion as football clubs are in ours, and the Crimean War is approaching it's 165th year, Spec Ops 27 agent Thursday Next must track down Achernar Hades, the third most evil man in the world, before he can steal the original manuscript for Jane Eyre and enter the book to physically kidnap the heroine herself.
Review: Another book from Jasper Fforde which takes cheerful fun taking every literary trope in the, er, book and running with it. It's slightly more serious than his Nursery Crimes series, with an emphasis on slightly. It's hard take any world completely seriously when the heroine's mad inventor uncle invents a "prose portal" in his backyard shed and one of the secondary villains is literally named "Jack Schitt". As an AU author, he's too slapdash to do a good job, but it hardly matters, given the pace of the book hardly allows for introspection.
Read it.
Review: Another book from Jasper Fforde which takes cheerful fun taking every literary trope in the, er, book and running with it. It's slightly more serious than his Nursery Crimes series, with an emphasis on slightly. It's hard take any world completely seriously when the heroine's mad inventor uncle invents a "prose portal" in his backyard shed and one of the secondary villains is literally named "Jack Schitt". As an AU author, he's too slapdash to do a good job, but it hardly matters, given the pace of the book hardly allows for introspection.
Read it.
