Something Rotten is the last of the first four books of the Thursday Next series... I figure that since Jasper took a few years off, I can take a break now, too. :)
This was definitely a great conclusion for the set... basically, a whole bunch of odd things that happened in the previous books were recalled and sometimes explained here, and, of course, even more odd things happened!
It's a hard book to summarize, though, because so much of what happens here is tied to things that happened in other books — a fictional character comes to power, Thursday's husband is reactualized (or is he?), Thursday's friend's wife is an assassin out to kill Thursday... yeah.
The new things in the story are a plot by the aforementioned fictional leader to convince England to hate Denmark, going so far as to claim that Volvos are both unsafe and Danish; Thursday's acquisition of the Swindon Mallets croquet team which needs to win the SuperHoop to take down the Goliath Corporation; and that Thursday needs to find a new Shakespeare to rewrite Hamlet after its characters wreak havoc on the piece.
Basically, if you've liked the previous books, read this one. But do not under any circumstances read this first.
Rating: 7.5/10
(Countdown Challenge: 2004)
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Okay... twenty-odd days is plenty of time off. Now go read First Among Sequels. And then start the Nursery Crime series. You'll be pleased with the tie-ins.
-laughs- But should I read Nursery Crime first, because that's how he wrote them? It's too much to ponder!
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