First Among Sequels (2007) (edit title/settings)

• Rated 5 stars

“See: http://lateintothenight.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-among-rev-er-sequals-right.html”

• Rated 4 stars

“Jasper Fforde is out of his mind! i LOVE Thursday”

• Rated 4 stars

“As the fifth installment in the Thursday Next Literary Detective series, this book begins 14 years from the end of the previous book. This book does not introduce as many new literary references as some of the earlier ones, and spends much time getting Thursday into layers and layers of desperate trouble. The puns remain to keep the mood of the book from getting too dark, and the plot of the mystery keeps twisting in interesting ways. ”

• Rated 3 stars

“ While I love the Thursday Next series, this one was probably my least favorite of the 5 so far. What I like so much about the TN books are the adventures in books, puns and play-on-words from various literary works. While this one is still a great read, it focuses more on Thursday's life in the Outland than the work within books.
Still very funny and full of action, I definitely recommend it as an installment of the series. ”

• Rated 4 stars

“Fourteen years after the previous novel, we find Thursday Next facing a threat to her family, the BookWorld, and possibly even the end of Time itself!
The one drawback: this is a continued story...”

• Rated 3 stars

“LibraryCin said: 3.25 stars

Thursday Next now has three kids - one son, Friday, and two daughters, Tuesday and Jenny. Unbeknownst to her husband, Langdon, who thought she'd quit SpecOps and Jurisfiction, Thursday is still doing what she has done for many years. Friday (16 years old), though Thursday knows he is supposed to be doing big things with his life, is so far, still a lazy teenager. Thursday is also training new SpecOps agents, Thursday5 (from the 5th Thursday Next novel, which didn't sell, and almost immediately, went out of print; and Thursday1-4 (from the 1st four books), who people love because she is all about sex and violence (by Thursday5, they had changed her personality to the opposite extreme).

I wasn't all that excited about the first half, and I wasn't enjoying it as much as I remembered liking the other books. There is always a lot going on, and the explanations for things, I often find a bit confusing. There is much more going on than my summary suggests, but those were the most interesting storylines, I thought. And, the book did improve for me in the second half, and really improved for the last 1/4 of the book, which was, by far, the most interesting part.”

• Rated 4 stars

“I liked it, but thought it was slightly less good than its prequels. Maybe because my expectations were raised too high.”

• Rated 3 stars

“I didn't finish as I just became bored even though there was so much going on.”

• Rated 3 stars

“What would best be labeled "another entry in the series" is not as strong as books three and four. The elements that deal with the book world are, as always, entertaining, but the materials that focus on time travel read like weakly cropped Douglas Addams. The cliffhanger ending is more a pitch for the next book than something that drives you to the next volume.

First read April 20, 2011.

Listened to November 2012.”

• Rated 3 stars

“3.25 stars

Thursday Next now has three kids - one son, Friday, and two daughters, Tuesday and Jenny. Unbeknownst to her husband, Langdon, who thought she'd quit SpecOps and Jurisfiction, Thursday is still doing what she has done for many years. Friday (16 years old), though Thursday knows he is supposed to be doing big things with his life, is so far, still a lazy teenager. Thursday is also training new SpecOps agents, Thursday5 (from the 5th Thursday Next novel, which didn't sell, and almost immediately, went out of print; and Thursday1-4 (from the 1st four books), who people love because she is all about sex and violence (by Thursday5, they had changed her personality to the opposite extreme).

I wasn't all that excited about the first half, and I wasn't enjoying it as much as I remembered liking the other books. There is always a lot going on, and the explanations for things, I often find a bit confusing. There is much more going on than my summary suggests, but those were the most interesting storylines, I thought. And, the book did improve for me in the second half, and really improved for the last 1/4 of the book, which was, by far, the most interesting part.
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