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A review by msjoanna
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
4.0
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.