[Read 9/18/2007]
Mystery/Fantasy/SF
Lost in a Good Bookis the 2nd of Fforde’s Thursday Next (Literary Detective) series (after The Eyre Affair). Thursday is assigned to investigate the discovery of a lost Shakespeare play, “Cardenia”. She runs up against Yorrick Kaine, a neofascist (whig) politician (and, who might also be someone else).
Thursday is also blackmailed by the Goliath Corporation, who want their operative Jack Schitt back; Next had imprisoned him in Poe’s The Raven. To get her to bring him back, they get a corrupt ChronoGuard agent (Lavoisier) to have her husband killed off (eradicated). Landon is thus killed when he is 2 years old and Thursday (also pregnant with his child) is the only one who remembers him.
Thursday enters the Book World as a Jurisfiction trainee under Mrs. Haversham (of Great Expectations). She gets Schitt out of the Raven, but is double-crossed. She decides to hide in Book World, in “The Well of Lost Plots” (where all fiction is created). She thinks she’ll be safe in the Character Exchange Program for awhile…
