In this third Thursday Next book from Fforde (seriously, READ THE EYRE AFFAIR ALREADY) Thursday is waiting for her husband to be re-actualized and hiding out from vengeful criminals and shady corporations in the only place she can think of: the fictional world. Specifically, she's found an unfinished manuscript in the Well of Lost Plots, where all books are created, unbeknownst to their authors. As in Fforde's other novels, this one pulls together zany ideas and characters including a nursery rhyme character labor dispute, a mispeling vyrus that threatens to take out beloved characters, group anger management classes for the characters of Wuthering Heights, gradually-more-interesting generic characters as Thursday's lodgers, and a bit of ahead-of-its-time commentary on ebook rules for libraries (or at least that's how I read it). Gah, I love this series. It's so silly and fun and I get more jokes every time I read it.
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