Thursday Next is back. And this time it's personal . . .

Officially, Literary Detective Thursday Next is off the case. Once a key figure in the BookWorld police force, she is concentrating on her duties as a wife and mother. Or so her husband thinks . . .

Unofficially, Thursday is working as hard as ever - and in this world of dangerously short attention spans, there's no rest for the literate.

Can Thursday stop Pride and Prejudice being turned into a vote-em-off reality book?

Who killed Sherlock Holmes?

And will Thursday get her teenage son out of bed in time for him to save the world?

A very light, slightly enjoyable read. I had to go and read the synopsis of the series on wikipedia because it's been that long since I read a Thursday Next novel.

I loved the first one, the Eyre Affair, and thought it was very clever. However, five books in, the concept and the jokes are getting a bit old and tired now. Even Fforde's Nursery Rhyme series is set in the same "world" and so not that much of a stretch. It will be interesting to see what Shades of Grey is like.

A poor man's Terry Pratchett (not as funny and not as clever.)

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