Category Archives: Literary Sci-Fi
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde
Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 382 pages, 2006 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: Bet you can’t read just one. Synopsis: Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, along with the other members of the Nursery Crime Division, is hot on the trail of a fresh crime, this time involving a missing journalist nicknamed ‘Goldy,’ some bears, […]
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 386 pages, 2005 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: I’ve loved all of Fforde’s books. Synopsis: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…or did he? Detective Inspector Jack Spratt is looking into the possibility that the hard-living, womanizing egg was actually murdered, with possible […]
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
Reviewed by L.D.Y. Hardcover (available in trade), 389 pages, 2004 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: I love Fforde, and if reading his Thursday Next stories is as close as I can come to living inside a book, I will be one content bookworm. Synopsis: Thursday Next is a woman with the rather strange capability of […]
The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
Reviewed by L.D.Y. Trade, 360 pages, 2003 Rating: 9/10 Reason for Reading: Loved The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book. Synopsis: In this third book of the Thursday Next series, Thursday is sent to the Well of Lost Plots to avoid detection by the evil Aornis during her pregnancy by her husband Landen, […]