Lost in a Good Book (Jasper Fforde)

Rating: [rate 4]

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper FfordeHer adventures as a renowned Special Operative in literary detection have left Thursday Next yearning for a rest. But when the love of her life is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must bite the bullet and moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative in the secret world of Jurisfiction, the police force inside books. There she is apprenticed to Miss Havisham, the famous man-hater from Dickens’ Great Expectations, who teaches her to book-jump like a pro. If she retrieves a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of Poe’s “The Raven,” she thinks Goliath might return her lost love, Landen. But her latest mission is endlessly complicated. Not only are there side trips to the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself a target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.

Well, that summary surely said enough. Lost in a Good Book is the sequel to The Eyre Affair, which picks up just about two weeks from the last novel. The book is just as fun to read as the last one, with all the new characters coming in especially the ones from fiction.

The only thing that didn’t agree with me are the long explanations on the chapter of Thursday’s Uncle Mycroft’s retirement. Too many technical stuff that my brain froze when I read it. ^^; It is fun to figure out the crazy coincidences in the book (even if Mycroft’s explanation of how coincidences work are totally fake).

The book ends with the impression that there will be another book coming…after all, Landen still has to be uneradicated, and Thursday is still pregnant. The end of the book opens another world for Thursday which is surely to be a great read as well (I should know, I read it already. :p hahaha).

Another great read from Mr. Fforde. I swear, if you haven’t read any of his books, YOU SHOULD. You’re missing half of your life if you don’t. ;)