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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
3.5 stars
Another fun Thursday read. It took little while for me to get it to the story, but once I did I thoroughly it enjoyed as usual. Fforde's humor and writing style really appeals to me and I love diving back into this world. I particularly liked the multiple Thursday's in this back as well her kids Tuesday and Friday (all versions) (plus the elusive Jenny lol). In fact, I wish there was more of the kids and hope there will be in the next book. I've been spreading the series out quite a bit and in no rush to read the next, but definitely will. This does, however, seem to be one of those series that will remain forever unfinished so I suppose it's just as well that I'm spreading it out.
Another fun Thursday read. It took little while for me to get it to the story, but once I did I thoroughly it enjoyed as usual. Fforde's humor and writing style really appeals to me and I love diving back into this world. I particularly liked the multiple Thursday's in this back as well her kids Tuesday and Friday (all versions) (plus the elusive Jenny lol). In fact, I wish there was more of the kids and hope there will be in the next book. I've been spreading the series out quite a bit and in no rush to read the next, but definitely will. This does, however, seem to be one of those series that will remain forever unfinished so I suppose it's just as well that I'm spreading it out.
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
fforde nailed it again tbh
Not as amazing at The Eyre Affair, but still a fun romp with plenty of literature nerd inside jokes.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
These books are interesting, i find a lot of the set up jokes/satire uninteresting, but once the plot gets going it's really engaging.
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I raced through this audiobook in two days as I had a lot of driving to do. I enjoyed Emily Gray as the narrator more this time than I did the last time. I still like the original narrator from the first two books better, but I found Ms. Gray's voices for the different characters less grating in this book than in [b:Something Rotten|26999|Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)|Jasper Fforde|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1270782422s/26999.jpg|948606].
In this book, we're back to meta-cleverness as Thursday interacts with the fictional versions of herself from the books about her adventures, we see lots of back and forth with JurisFiction and book hopping, and we get more depth on Thursday's family. I was glad to have much more book-world here than in [b:Something Rotten|26999|Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)|Jasper Fforde|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1270782422s/26999.jpg|948606]--the book world plots are the more clever and inventive. Still, here the changes to the fantasy-England were interesting.
In this installment, readership has dropped and reality TV is replacing books for entertainment. Meanwhile, the book pokes gentle fun at time-travel stories and nonetheless attempts to explain some time travel paradoxes in the Thursday Next universe. The jokes and explanations didn't always quite come together, but I enjoyed the effort and continue to find Fforde extremely fun.
I'll definitely read the next in this series at some point.
In this book, we're back to meta-cleverness as Thursday interacts with the fictional versions of herself from the books about her adventures, we see lots of back and forth with JurisFiction and book hopping, and we get more depth on Thursday's family. I was glad to have much more book-world here than in [b:Something Rotten|26999|Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)|Jasper Fforde|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1270782422s/26999.jpg|948606]--the book world plots are the more clever and inventive. Still, here the changes to the fantasy-England were interesting.
In this installment, readership has dropped and reality TV is replacing books for entertainment. Meanwhile, the book pokes gentle fun at time-travel stories and nonetheless attempts to explain some time travel paradoxes in the Thursday Next universe. The jokes and explanations didn't always quite come together, but I enjoyed the effort and continue to find Fforde extremely fun.
I'll definitely read the next in this series at some point.
After the delightful romps of the first several books in this series, I have to say I was pretty disappointed. Everything that was fresh and funny and wonderful before just got rather old.
Maybe it's a good thing I'm pretty much done with this series?
[2 stars for what felt like a mailed-in story.]
[2 stars for what felt like a mailed-in story.]
It's been a couple years since I read the first four in the series but thankfully this installment starts fourteen years after the events in those books so it seems like a natural break point. I always enjoy my time in this world because of the nature of the bookworld element there's so many literary puns and nods that are always a good time. I think my favorite part of this series are the ways that language and words are played with including purely textual jokes. There's even a section written like a graphic novel due to the way the world is structured. I think overall this feels like a set up for a new overarching plot with a bit of a cliff hanger ending but I'm not even mad because I love everything about these books too much. I'm also in awe of how much things have been structured out since the beginning because even with the time travel there's things that play out here that have tiny crumblike presences in the first installments.