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I haven't enjoyed a Jasper Fforde book this much since Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels), the fourth book in the series.

The Woman Who Died A Lot, the seventh book in the series, has a lot in common with Something Rotten, mainly that we're back to the real world after a major detour through book world in the previous volume. Normally I would lament the loss of BookWorld, but after the confusing outing that was One of Our Thursdays Is Missing: A Thursday Next Novel, I welcomed the reprieve.

The real-world setting gives this novel a little more direction, not that Fforde would ever allow himself to be constrained by something as flimsy as reality. Thursday still has to deal with the most dangerous job she's ever held (being a librarian), an impending smiting by an angry deity, Goliath clones of herself, and the fall-out from time travel being found impossible back in First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, Book 5).

Fforde does a few things brilliantly here:

1. Thursday is aging. She's older and injured, she hobbles around, has trouble getting up stairs. She's still a bad-ass, but she's just an older, slightly saggier bad-ass. Despite all the ridiculous situations she finds herself in, her character remains grounded in reality.

2. Fforde's writing of memory, memory loss, and its confusing effects is simply genius. Telling a first-person story filled with implanted memories, fake memories, memories some people share and others don't, sudden memory loss, etc., cannot be easy. Fforde pulls it off masterfully. Chapter 36 of this book might just be one of the most brilliant things he has written.

3. The plot is a little ludicrous, but that could just be my distaste for time travel. However, he keeps things rolling along at a good clip and manages this book to feel more like a "literary thriller" than any novel before it. It lives up to its cheesy noir title.

There are also a good many laugh-out-loud moments along the way. A Swindon/Szechuan Fusion restaurant featuring "steak and chips dim sum followed by hot Fanta in a teapot." A righteous man being corrupted by being at "a lap-dancing bar getting plastered and running up gambling debts while eating delicacies made from pandas' ears." Finding the inspiration for Scooby-Doo endings in an obscure work from ancient Greece. Plus some spot-on social satire reminiscent of Terry Pratchett on his A-game.

Tl;dr: This book is delightful. For the first time since the beginning of this new plot arc (beginning with TN5), I'm looking forward to see where Thursday goes Next. (Pun not intended when I first typed it.)


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The Woman Who Died a Lot Thursday Next Book 7 Jasper Fforde 9780340963111 Books Reviews

The "Thursday Next" series is fantastic. Fforde has constructed two believeable worlds in this series, the one Thursday Next lives in and the one she used to frequent-the Book World.

In this latest installment, more of her family is involved since Thursday's injuries prevent her from visiting the Book World (nuts. I miss the Book World).

Several pressing problems face Thursday in this book.
First is the Almighty has gotten fed up with people and has taken to smiting them. Swindon knows the date and time of the smiting and has evacuation plans in place, but would like to thwart the smiting via a system Thursday's genius daughter, Tuesday, is working on. Time is short and Tuesday can't get the system up and running.

The now-defunct Chrono-Guard has sent letters to some of the citizens of Swindon informing them what their careers would've been if the Chrono-guard hadn't been disbanded. The letters also contain information about how their lives will play out now, including how and when they will die. Most disturbing is Friday's (Thursday's son) letter about his future--which involves a murder and jail time.

Thursday must also deal with the fact she isn't as young as she used to be and she's addicted to her pain medicine patches. She's installed as head librarian at the local All-You-Can-Eat-at Fatso's Drink Not Included library, when she wanted to be head of the re-instated Literary Detectives, her former Spec-ops division. She must also deal with Goliath's synthetically engineered Thursday Day Players, impressive look alikes on the outside, but missing vital internal components. They keep showing up and swapping places with the real Thursday, forcing Thursday and her husband Landon to come up with passwords every time they separate, so when they are back together Landon knows if he's talking to his wife or an imposter.

And Aornis, she of the mindworm implantation that causes Thursday to think she has another daughter name Jenny when Tuesday is the only daughter Thursday has, is missing, escaped from custody. Jack Schitt and Thursday continue to have confrontations and Pickwick is still as clueless as ever.
I have thoroughly enjoyed almost every book Jasper Fforde has written, from the Thursday Next series to the Nursery Crimes. I am not going to repeat what is in other reviews or the blurb on about this book, they describe this pretty well. If you are considering buying this then you most likely have read all the others to-date and don't need too much information. If you haven't, then go back and start with the first or second book in the Thursday Next series. (I started at the second and it was no problem).

If you have been following Thursday Next you will have noticed a trend where each story tends to get a bit more "out there". this is not abnormal for a series, it is in fact almost required or they become stale. But in the process, a series can leave a bit of what made them great behind too. In this installment Mr Fforde returns somewhat to a style and story that is much more tuned in to the first and second in the series than what followed. That is actually quite nice. I am not saying the story is a rehash. He just goes back to the basics of what made the stories good.

As always his writing is imaginative and fun, with clever takes on what we are and how we lead our lives.

This is well worth the effort and in a way regrounds his series. Some reviewers seem to think the story is weak, it isn't any more or less so than book 2 in my view, which I still think was his best in the series.

As before, this silliness is not for the faint of heart, you have to go with it, but it is always done with intelligence. and I am not sure there is a writer out there now that can combine the silly with the intelligent as well as Mr Fforde.
I haven't enjoyed a Jasper Fforde book this much since Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels), the fourth book in the series.

The Woman Who Died A Lot, the seventh book in the series, has a lot in common with Something Rotten, mainly that we're back to the real world after a major detour through book world in the previous volume. Normally I would lament the loss of BookWorld, but after the confusing outing that was One of Our Thursdays Is Missing A Thursday Next Novel, I welcomed the reprieve.

The real-world setting gives this novel a little more direction, not that Fforde would ever allow himself to be constrained by something as flimsy as reality. Thursday still has to deal with the most dangerous job she's ever held (being a librarian), an impending smiting by an angry deity, Goliath clones of herself, and the fall-out from time travel being found impossible back in First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, Book 5).

Fforde does a few things brilliantly here

1. Thursday is aging. She's older and injured, she hobbles around, has trouble getting up stairs. She's still a bad-ass, but she's just an older, slightly saggier bad-ass. Despite all the ridiculous situations she finds herself in, her character remains grounded in reality.

2. Fforde's writing of memory, memory loss, and its confusing effects is simply genius. Telling a first-person story filled with implanted memories, fake memories, memories some people share and others don't, sudden memory loss, etc., cannot be easy. Fforde pulls it off masterfully. Chapter 36 of this book might just be one of the most brilliant things he has written.

3. The plot is a little ludicrous, but that could just be my distaste for time travel. However, he keeps things rolling along at a good clip and manages this book to feel more like a "literary thriller" than any novel before it. It lives up to its cheesy noir title.

There are also a good many laugh-out-loud moments along the way. A Swindon/Szechuan Fusion restaurant featuring "steak and chips dim sum followed by hot Fanta in a teapot." A righteous man being corrupted by being at "a lap-dancing bar getting plastered and running up gambling debts while eating delicacies made from pandas' ears." Finding the inspiration for Scooby-Doo endings in an obscure work from ancient Greece. Plus some spot-on social satire reminiscent of Terry Pratchett on his A-game.

Tl;dr This book is delightful. For the first time since the beginning of this new plot arc (beginning with TN5), I'm looking forward to see where Thursday goes Next. (Pun not intended when I first typed it.)