Thursday Next : First Among Sequels

from xicanti

Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next must save the Book World's declining Read Rates, put an end to such dastardly schemes as Reality Book Shows, and persuade her teenage son to join the ChronoGuard before he destroys history forever. I had a fantastic time with the first four T...

from MikeFarquhar

First Among Sequels is Jasper Fforde's latest installment in his Thursday Next series, and finds that time has moved on a bit - Thursday is now aged 52, has three kids, is happily married to the now-not-erased-from-history Landen, and has retired from both Special Ops and Jurisfiction, content to...

from readafew

First Among Sequels is the 6th 5th book in the Thursday Next series. It occurs 14 years after the events in Something Rotten. In that interim Special Operations was disbanded and Thursday and some of the other ex-SO people started ACME carpets, to keep themselves employed (and cover their clandes...

from pmtracy

The Thursday Next series just keeps getting better. This installation was more cohesive than past volumes even though there were considerable time displacements and jumps between the "real world" and BookWorld. The oddities of this alternative reality version of our world are getting sillier. One...

from reading_fox

More madcap surreal adventures in Thursday Next's world. Set in 2002 some 14 years after Something Rotten, Thursday and Landen have been happily living together, Friday is now 16 and hasn't yet joined the Chronoguard - somewhat surprisingly as he was known to have started by 13. Somethign Other i...