In a world where time travel is commonplace and cloning brings you the family dodo rather than the family dog, Thursday Next is a Special Operative in the Literary Detection. She helps make sure that literature that is sold is the real deal and not a forgery and helps to protect the original manuscripts of famous pieces since a change to the original will change all other copies all over the world. Now her uncle has discovered a way for people to travel inside of manuscripts and a particularly nasty sort of villain is threatening to steal Jane Eyre right out of the Bronte manuscript and destroy that story forever. Detective Thursday must find a way to stop him and put things to rights before all famous literature is at risk.
Seriously, a world where reading is such a big deal sounds like my kind of place! Seriously, it was interesting premise for world building with only a bit of time traveling paradox thrown in. Characters were good but a little simplistic and character interactions were fairly predictable. On the whole though, a wonderful light and fun bit of summer reading.
Page count: 385p/7,895p ytd/299,916p lifetime
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