One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
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The sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series—from the author of The Constant Rabbit Jasper Fforde's exuberant return to the fantastical BookWorld opens during a time of great unrest. All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday. The Council wants her to pretend to be the real Thursday and travel as a peacekeeping emissary to the warring factions. A trip up the mighty Metaphoric River beckons-a trip that will reveal a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld itself. Once again New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde has a field day gleefully blending satire, romance, and thriller with literary allusions galore in a fantastic adventure through the landscape of a frisky and fertile imagination. Fans will rejoice that their favorite character in the Fforde universe is back. Watch a Video
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8 primary books#6 in Thursday Next
Thursday Next is a 8-book series with 8 released primary works first released in 1969 with contributions by Jasper Fforde.
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I can never quite explain Jasper Fforde books to other people; unless they've read The Eyre Affair, it is hard to fully grasp the Ffordian universe. And because I love Thursday Next and her world, I was skeptical that I would enjoy a sequel that featured a different main character and a different manifestation of that world. But I shouldn't have doubted. The remaking of the Book World allowed for new adventures that wouldn't have worked in the Great Library, and this self-doubting version of Thursday was a relatable character whom I enjoyed in different ways. Another gem.
The initial premise and writing of this book is shockingly ridiculous, but that only highlights the decent characters and plot. Fforde knows exactly how seriously to take his writing and dances around cliches, using them to his advantage. They'res a character named Red Herring, and the entire time you wonder weather or not he's a Red Herring, trying to guess what level Fforde is thinking on. That being said, it's far from perfect. After 6 books, the concepts beginning to get a little played out. Switching the main character out for her fictional copy helped with this, giving us a new character to work with, but the books all feel kinda samey and similar. Fforde could also stand to set up his ending a bit better, as the big reveal looses a bit of punch since I didn't catch all of the setup. But it's so unique, you have to ignore the flaws and read it anyways.
