First Among Sequels

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Call Number: Mystery / Fforde, Jasper
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Fourteen years after the 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday finds herself entangled in cases involving the murders of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple before receiving a death threat of her own.

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First Among Sequels submitted by halofriendly on July 23, 2011, 9:37pm Fforde keeps this entertaining series going with First Among Sequels and it's probably my favorite one yet. It's witty, it's funny and we get to experience three different Thursday Next characters! Highly recommended...

Thursday Next submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 28, 2013, 4:15pm The fifth in the "Thursday Next" series by Jasper Fforde, "First Among Sequels" focuses more on Thursday's children. She and her husband now have three and their eldest is supposed to enter the ChronoGuard like his grandfather. They know this because someone from the future informed them. Her son, Friday, is resisting, which is throwing the future into danger. Meanwhile, Thursday is also encountering renegade apprentices, Big Brother-like corporations, and throuble from Cheese Enforcement Agency (cheese as become a highly valued black market commodity).
Thursday's world is somewhat parallel to our own: she lives in Swindon, England. Yet the technology there is quite different. People travel in dirigibles rather than airplanes. Wales is its own nation. Scientists have cloned neanderthals, dodos and wooly mammoths, who now migrant freely across England. Thursday is also secretly part of a police force investigating crimes in fiction, such as "real" world murderers who are hiding in novels or people trying to disrupt plot lines.
The quality of the series deteriorates with each novel, yet I still enjoyed them and read the entire set.