Book 45 - "The Well of Lost Plots" by Jasper Fforde

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The story begins with Thursday hiding out in the unpublished novel "Caversham Heights" under the character exchange program, while training as a Jurisfiction agent. She is filling in for a detective's sidekick called Mary, and sharing a houseboat with two generic story characters who are at such an early stage of their training that they are indistinguishable from each other and don't even rate capitalisation when Thursday gives them the names ibb and obb. There wasn't much action in the first third of the book, while Thursday settled into her new home and job and I was getting ever so slightly bored, but things perked up when the minotaur escaped, there was an outbreak of the mispeling vyrus and Thrsday realises that someone is killing off Jurisfiction agents.

There were lots of very clever and amusing ideas, such as Miss Havisham running rage counselling sessions for the characters of "Wuthering Heights", but overall I didn't like this book as much as the first two in the series. I missed Thursday's family (especially her uncle's inventions) and her colleagues, and her adventures in the book world just didn't seem as exciting as those she had back in SpecOps.