First Among Sequels

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Call Number: BOCD Mystery
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Performed by Emily Gray.
"Thursday Next is back for more genre-bending fun, with witty dialogue and madcap adventure to spare. Fourteen years have passed since we last dropped in on Thursday, and not much has changed--except her son Friday has grown into a teenage pill. Now the Goliath Corporation is up to their old mischief, and only Thursday can stop their latest diabolical scheme." -- from publisher's web site.

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Thursday Next submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 28, 2013, 4:17pm The fifth in the "Thursday Next" series by Jasper Fforde, "First Among Sequels" adds a focus on Thursday's children that previous novels did not have.

Thursday and her husband now have three offspring. Their eldest, Friday, is supposed to enter the ChronoGuard (a special forces unit that polices the timeline) like his grandfather. They know this because someone from the future informed them. Her son 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.