A continuation from the first book, The Eyre Affair, in which Thursday Next killed arch-criminal Acheron Hades and imprisoned Goliath Corporation operative Jack Schitt in Poe's poem The Raven.
Now married to her lover from the first story, Landen, and pregnant with their baby, Thursday finds herself being hunted by persons unknown and the Goliath people demanding that she free Schitt from Poe's famous poem. When she refuses, Goliath agents go back in time and erase Landen when he was just a toddler, promising to bring him back when she brings back Jack Schitt. But not only do they want Schitt, they also want the Prose Portal, the device that enables humans to enter the word of the written word. And its inventor, Thursday's Uncle Mycroft.
This was a weird story, just like the first one. All this jumping about in time and in and out of books is more than a little confusing. At one point in the story Thursday is shot dead, but comes back, thanks to time travel, but I really didn't understand that part. A lot of this story doesn't make much sense, but that is part of its charm, I think.
Anyway, I enjoyed the story and am looking forward to the next in the series, The Well of Lost Plots.
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