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jaceyThe second Thursday Next book begins just a few months after The Eyre Affair ends with Thursday now happily married to Landen Parke-Laine and working as a literary detective. Famous for changing the ending of Jane Eyre, she's busy dodging publicity and the wrath of the Goliath Corporation – mad at her for imprisoning their operative Jack Schitt inside Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven.'
When Goliath arranges for her new husband to be erased from the timeline in order to blackmail Thursday into freeing Schitt she needs to find a way to transport herself into books. Uncle Mycroft's prose portal is no longer available, so Thursday must find another way.
As if this problem wasn't enough, Thursday's dad, a renegade chrono guard and time-hopper, pops up to tell her the world is about to end unless she can do something about it... Now.
Just as in The Eyre Affair, literary references abound in a surreal mix of fantasy and parallel world happenings. I didn't get totally swept away by this, it's a bit slow to start with Landen's disappearance – the main plot driver – not happening until getting on for 100 pages into the book. It picked up considerably towards the end however and managed to leave you with an excellent reason for reading the next one - The Well of Lost Plots.
When Goliath arranges for her new husband to be erased from the timeline in order to blackmail Thursday into freeing Schitt she needs to find a way to transport herself into books. Uncle Mycroft's prose portal is no longer available, so Thursday must find another way.
As if this problem wasn't enough, Thursday's dad, a renegade chrono guard and time-hopper, pops up to tell her the world is about to end unless she can do something about it... Now.
Just as in The Eyre Affair, literary references abound in a surreal mix of fantasy and parallel world happenings. I didn't get totally swept away by this, it's a bit slow to start with Landen's disappearance – the main plot driver – not happening until getting on for 100 pages into the book. It picked up considerably towards the end however and managed to leave you with an excellent reason for reading the next one - The Well of Lost Plots.
