Something Rotten

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Narrated by Emily Gray.
Literary dectective Thursday Next returns to Swindon with her son and Hamlet. But can she find a Shakespeare clone to stop the Merry Wives of Windsor from getting entangled with Hamlet? Can she prevent the world from plunging into war? Can she vanquish Kaine before he realizes his dream of absolute power? And, most important, will she ever find reliable child care?

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Thursday Next submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 29, 2013, 12:29pm The fourth in the "Thursday Next" detective series, "Something Rotten" picks up the adventures of its title character who has been hiding the Book World (as opposed to her own "real" world, an alternative version of England) from assassins. The Book World is where literary characters live.

The novel begins with Thursday working as the head of the literary police force Jurisfiction hunting the Minotaur who escaped in the previous "Thursday Next" book. The Big Brother-like Goliath Corporation has erased Thursday's husband's existence from time, but not her son, Friday, who is now 2.

The mother and son pair go to visit the grandmother in the "read" Swindon as Hamlet tags along (hence the book's title). Thursday get her old job back at SpecOps-27 as a Literary Detective but her old nemesis Yorrick Kaine is trying to kill her. To make matters worse, her friends from the Book World say the places is going to pieces without her leadership.

This series is great for geeks who love literature, especially those who majored in it or in English. The series has numerous allusions to literature. The "real" world of Thursday Next is also fun as a science fiction wonderland. Scientists there have cloned neanderthals, dodos and even wooly mammoths, who now freely roam the countryside. It's a fun series, although the quality diminishes with each installment.