FIRST AMONG SEQUELS: Jasper Fforde: Viking: 2007: 363 pages.Delighting readers since publishing his first novel, The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde sets his fifth Thursday Next novel 15 years later. Thursday Next, a former literary detective agent has now settled down with her husband, Landen (who exists again) to raise their children— slacker teen Friday, brilliant mathematician and fourth grader, Tuesday, and the youngest, Jenny.
Thursday claims she is now an ACME carpet installer, but it is really just a front for her SpecOps job in the real world and Jurisfiction job in the book world. While trying to deal with renegade Jurisfiction apprentices, the Goliath Corporation who wants to turn the book world into a tourist trap and deadly cheese curd, Thursday must convince her lazy son Friday to join the ChronoGuard in order to save the future.
If you’ve never read a Thursday Next novel be prepared for far too many subplots that generally go no where, but if you’re a fan of satiric literary humor, you’ll enjoy every one of them.
AJ
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