Thursday Next

I'm officially hooked on Thursday Next. She is a fierce Special Ops literary detective with cajones the size of Texas. In a past post I compared her to Stephanie Plum, and I was again noticing parallels when Thursday's Grandma enters the scene:  "I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics." The rest of Thursday's family can certainly give Stephanie's a run for her money with a brother leading a multi-view religious group, an innovative inventor Uncle Mycroft, and a father who has been time traveling for the past seventeen years as a rogue agent with the Chronoguard.  Thursday fights for her husband to return from an eradication process designed to blackmail her, is apprenticed to Miss Havisham from Great Expectations as a Jurisfiction agent - the literary detective force that lives within the fictional world, and saves the world from total destruction. Thursday is fearless, a bit impulsive, and has a strong moral compass. She's my heroine.

I am entranced by this series. Jasper Fforde's writing style mesmerizes and tickles my cerebral fancy. This is truly a series that cannot adequately be described, but must be experienced for oneself. My only decision now is how quickly I want the journey to end. Do I turn around the read the next Next novel, or pace it so I can finish them by the time I leave for spring vacation?