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A fun idea, but sometimes a bit too silly. The jokes were poor at times. A 3.5 out of 5.
Thursday Next lives in 1985, when the Krim war has been going on for 130 years. She is a veteran while her brother got killed there. She works for Special Operations-27 in London, that deal with literary crimes. A former teacher of her, Archeron Hades, now a serious criminal, has been stealing old manuscripts, from famous books. Meanwhile Thursday's uncle has invented a machine that allows people to go inside a book and interact with the characters in it.
Hades kidnaps the uncle and manages to steal the original manuscript of Jane Eyre. This is a disaster, because anyone who has an original, and changes it, changes the copies of that book everywhere. But Hades has more serious plans: he uses the machine of Thursday's uncle to get into the Jane Eyre manuscript and then plans to kidnap Jane herself, so that most of the book is unwritten (since it's written in the first person). Thursday tries to stop him.
This is the first book in the Thursday Next series. I may try another one sometime, but I wasn't as enthralled as I thought I would be.