Thursday Next - First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Category: Fiction Grade: A
In keeping with the new series review policy, this review will be a short one.
As with all the Thursday Next books, this was terrific. The premise is that Next is a detective working for the Literary Crimes division of the police. She is able to cross between the real world and the fictional world. In other words, don't bother to pick up any book in the series unless you're a fantasy fan who can suspend belief. If you do, you're reward with a fun romp filled with literary references and characters along with extremely clever (and often silly) word play. My favorite in this book -- two detectives have jumped in to a story and have been warned that somebody is actually, at that time reading the book. Of course, it'll just confuse the reader if he notices two unexpected, anachronistic characters hanging around so the pair has to hide since, as anybody knows, detectives are better off "Dead than Read".
I hope that Fforde has as much fun writing these books as I do reading them.
A small warning -- this is a series that you definitely want to read in order so, if it sounds appealing, go back and pick up The Eyre Affair.
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