First Among Sequels

I picked up Jasper Fforde’s latest with fear and trepidation, because his Nursery Crime books have been so terrible – but I needn’t have feared, this was very good. It’s sixteen years on and Thursday is still dabbling with both in SpecOps and BookWorld duties, while trying to be a good wife and mother at the same time. There’s all the fun of weird time, Spike and his demons, bookjumping and carpet laying, with lots of not-so-subtle asides about the reality tv era and corporate madness. Best of all he’s shoved in some cool twists that I really didn’t see coming. While this isn’t on par with the first two of the series, which are, I think, the best, it’s still very good, thought-provoking and – finally – a good comedy.