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Thursday Next First Among Sequels
by Jasper Fforde

Release Date: 29th Jul 2008
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 978 0 1431 1356 0
RRP: £8.38

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Reality, a BookWorld and in the middle, Thursday Next

The fourth in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde, The First Among Sequels follows in the same vein as its predecessors, in that Thursday continues to save the BookWorld from some devastating threat as well as dealing with the odd demon or strange creature in the real world. In fact, it is rarity that a book leaves me feeling baffled, but I found it increasingly difficult to comprehend how all the different strands of plot lead into each other (at times, I suspect that they do not), never mind what the actual plot itself was.

Thursday was special ops - a Literary Detective no less, which although sounds rather exciting is not expanded upon in this novel, much to my disappointment. Disbanded, now she has to use Acme Carpets (a carpet provider and laying services) as a front for her illicit activities. In the First Amongst Sequels, Thursday has to battle against her literary self, Thursday 1-4 (the fictional her from the first four novels), train up her other literary self, Thursday 5, deal with the Council of Genres and its ridiculously shortsighted head, Senator Jobsworth, fight strange creatures and demons in the real world and somehow manage to uncover what the Chronoguard are up to and how the Goliath Corporation are involved. I have probably left out a significant portion of the various plots, but for the life of me couldn't stomach regurgitating them all here.

Mind-bendingly complicated with multiple strands of plot floating around, and an incredibly complex basis of a BookWorld where literary works actually come to life and all the fictional characters are like real people - how all this works seems to occasionally confuse both Thursday and the author at times. Indeed, whilst this novel seemingly offers a clever extrication from reality, I failed to appreciate its intricacy.

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