Carla Z. (carlaz) - reviewed on 2/27/2011 + 5 more book reviews

This Thursday Next novel seemed to move a bit slower than the earlier ones, but it could have been that the plot is more complicated, or at least, I found it so.

But I still loved it and can't wait for the next one!

From the inside cover:

"Fourteen years after she pegged out at the 1988 Super Hoop (in _Something Rotten_), Thursday Next is grappling with a host of new problems in the BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy novels....

"Back in Swindon, the government is reporting a dangerously high stupidity surplus, the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia is causing trouble for Thursday and the literary detective scene isn't what it used to be....

"At home, Thursday's idle sixteen-year old son would rather sleep all day than follow his destiny as a member of the ChronoGuard, the force that regulates time travel, and save the world from immenent destruction...."

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