First Among Sequels
- 416
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Five books in, “First Among Sequels” finds the “Thursday Next” series as light, cheerful and absurd as it was at the start. Thursday moves between her own version of Swindon and the BookWorld, and some readers relish her run-ins with other versions of herself. The plot itself strikes others as slight; for them the pleasure lies in the layered, nonsensical realities.
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About the book
First Among Sequels is an alternate history, comic fantasy novel by the British author Jasper Fforde. It is the fifth Thursday Next novel, first published on 5 July 2007 in the United Kingdom, and on 24 July 2007 in the United States. The novel follows the continuing adventures of Thursday Next in her fictional version of Swindon and in the BookWorld, and is the first of a new four-part Nextian series.
Reading order · Thursday Next
Full order & progress →- The Eyre AffairStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - Lost in a Good Book
8.18.1 / 10 - The Well of Lost Plots
8.08.0 / 10 - Something Rotten
8.18.1 / 10 - First Among SequelsThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
8.08.0 / 10 - The Woman Who Died a Lot
8.18.1 / 10 - Dark Reading MatterDark Reading Matter–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 114 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 44% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.7 | 9 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 105 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is First Among Sequels?
It has 416 pages — shorter than 73% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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