It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake. The fictional Thursday is soon hot on the trail of her factual alter-ego, and quickly stumbles upon a plot so fiendish that it threatens the very BookWorld itself.
Excessively clever, as Jasper Fforde tends to be, but lacks some of the heart that the earlier Thursday Next books have. But maybe this is intentional, being from the POV of the written Thursday, from BookWorld, rather than the actual Thursday. It's definitely an interesting twist to freshen things up, but I think I preferred regular Thursday.
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