Honestly, best compliment a writer can get.
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Just finished, The Woman Who Died A Lot, by Jasper Fforde. It is the 4th book in the Thursday Next series. When the series was first recommenced to me, it was described as a funny mixture of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. It has a drier and more absurd sense of humor than Adams, but it does have the world building and attention to social significance of Pratchettâs books.
Thursday Next is a really underappreciated character. Sheâs a member of SO-27, the Literary Detectives for the Jurisfiction police force in an alternative England where literature is more popular than anything. She faces off against the Goliath Corporation in the novels and can transfer herself into books to interact with Hamlet, the Cheshire Cat and Miss Havisham. The Woman Who Died A Lot is a slight departure from the first four novels and shows that Fforde can continue expanding his theoretical worlds without losing a beat. This was my favorite book in the series and has me looking forward to the next (Dark Reading Matter in 2026).
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