Review - Lost In A Good Book
Jan. 7th, 2009 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wilderthanI actually enjoyed Lost In A Good Book more than I enjoyed The Eyre Affair. Partly, I think it was that the ideas weren't so new and I already had some kind of attachment to the characters. And there was more bookjumping, which as a concept that fascinates me -- it was done slightly differently in the Inkworld books by Cornelia Funke, but it's still similar. There's a lot of that going round, actually: Jasper Fforde's books, Inkworld, the Inkheart movie, the Disney Bedtime Stories film... Perhaps it indicates a bigger interest in escapism nowadays? Anyway, that's beside the point.
The plot is more interesting in this book, I think. There's stopping the end of the world, there's rescuing Thursday's husband from being eradicated, there's the Jurisfiction stuff. There's another one dimensional evil-for-the-sake-of-evil character, but she's not got as big a part in this book as Acheron Hades did in the first. Besides, her power is amusing.
The back of the book says "Douglas Adams would be proud". I kind of agree -- some elements of the book remind me of his stuff, anyway. Maybe not as good, though. Still an enjoyable read.
The plot is more interesting in this book, I think. There's stopping the end of the world, there's rescuing Thursday's husband from being eradicated, there's the Jurisfiction stuff. There's another one dimensional evil-for-the-sake-of-evil character, but she's not got as big a part in this book as Acheron Hades did in the first. Besides, her power is amusing.
The back of the book says "Douglas Adams would be proud". I kind of agree -- some elements of the book remind me of his stuff, anyway. Maybe not as good, though. Still an enjoyable read.
