Something Rotten
- 416
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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About the book
Something Rotten is the fourth book in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. It continues the story some two years after the point where The Well of Lost Plots leaves off.
Reading order · Thursday Next
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 137 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 48% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.0 | 6 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 131 | 96% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“What's this, the fourth Thursday Next book? This one took place in “reality” so to speak, so it felt a lot more tethered and less like a short story per chapter which was my complaint with the last. Overall there's high stakes, a bunch of…”
“Thursday is now head of Jurisfiction, her 2yr old son Friday close to her hip. It's time for her to return to the outside and find a way to reactualize her husband Landen. When she returns home she find things are not as they were.…”
Frequently asked
How long is Something Rotten?
It has 416 pages — shorter than 72% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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