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Entertainment Weekly
Aug 2004
Something Rotten
Review by Gregory Kirschling.
When Starbucks tries to open another coffee shop-it's 17th-within the pages of the Hardy Boys series, Thursday Next cracks down. She's the literary detective keeping the peace in this fourth installment of Fforde's hyper-imaginative sci-fi comedy series set in an England where everybody is jumping in and out of books. Facing off against an evil "escaped fictionaut" named Yorrick Kaine, Next must find a cloned Shakespeare, pronto (or else Hamlet is lost forever), and help the good guys win a climactic match of a Quidditch-y game called SuperHoop (or else thermonuclear war ensues). Fforde has churned this quartet of books out at a clip-the first, The Eyre Affair, hit in 2002-and the essential one-jokeness of the premise is starting to show. But he compensates with enough furious daft invention to sate his cult fan base.