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Thursday Next is a SpecOps detective in an alternate universe where everyone is obsessed with literature and the Crimean War has raged on for over a hundred years. This world is also supernatural, in that time travel is possible, as is travel into and out of books. Thursday works to capture Hades, who has a plot to gain fame and fortune, in part by kidnapping Jane Eyre for ransom. Along the way, she regains her true love Landen and sort of comes to terms with herself and her life. Themes: literature, time, fluidity of reality, pacifism (sort of) This book just didn't come together for me. The idea was there, but Mr. Fforde focused on the idea and ignored developing his characters or polishing his writing. The Crimean War thing didn't seem to fit with the rest of the story even remotely and many twists and turns in the story felt conveniently abrupt. The writing was also lukewarm overall, and occasionally poor - at one point Thursday literally picks up a mirror and describes her physical appearance; isn't that the first overused device we learned never to succumb to in Creative Writing 101?

2022-11-14 16:54