Jennifer and co are endearing enough characters that they deserve better than merely being a joke delivery mechanism.Īll in all, a fun sequel in a fun series. : the eye of zoltar (9781444707274) by Jasper Fforde and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
It’s part of why I hope the series stops at four books if this went on, I could see it becoming more and more Xanth-like – where puns, rather than leavening the story, become the only purpose for the story. It’s unfortunate, because there’s plenty of humor in the story and characters already.
He also repeats many of the jokes from the first two books. One the latter point, though, Fforde is often evidently trying too hard – the main story line is fine, but he reaches often and too far to make jokes that don’t need to be made, and that don’t contribute to the story. Broadly, it all works well, and maintains the series’ tone and humor. This book takes Jennifer Strange out of the Kingdom of Snodd and into the neighbouring Cambrian Empire for fun, profit, and a lot of death-defying – in keeping with the realm’s economic basis – jeopardy tourism. While the previous book had an odd wrap-up epilogue, this one largely proceeds as if it had never happened, and carefully sets the stage for what’s slated to be the fourth and final book in the series – which is still going strong, but I hope Fforde learned some lessons from the over-stretched Thursday Next series, and will stop while he’s ahead. The Eye of Zoltar is a worthy sequel in the Dragonslayer series.
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