The Fourth Bear

I'm a bit over the Nursery Crime series. Don't get me wrong, Jasper Fforde is awesome, but I'm just a much bigger fan of Thursday Next.

These are kind of fun, there are lots of literary allusions (my favourite was Dorian Gray in this one), but that's really where the quality stops. Don't be fooled by the recommendations on the back cover, plot is not high on Fforde's list in these novels. This one is based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears, with some other random nursery characters. And I mean random! Try the Quangle Wangle, for example. Ever heard of him?

In the end I skimmed through the last few chapters. It got old and I stopped caring about what happened. Skip in favour of a Thursday Next novel.