• The Woman Who Died a Lot

  • A Thursday Next Novel, Book 7
  • By: Jasper Fforde
  • Narrated by: Emily Gray
  • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (784 ratings)

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The Woman Who Died a Lot

By: Jasper Fforde
Narrated by: Emily Gray
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Publisher's summary

Jasper Fforde's delightfully zany Thursday Next series shows no signs of slowing down with its seventh entry, The Woman Who Died a Lot.

Despite being semihappily semi-retired from SpecOps, Thursday accepts the head librarian position at the Swindon library. But soon threats from a supreme Deity, a mnemonomorph, and the nefarious Goliath corporation press Thursday back into active duty.

©2012 Jasper Fforde (P)2012 Recorded Books

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Fforde never lets you down

This story was a little more confusing than normal but still wonderful. The narrator is amazing. She is one of the best.

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meandering storyline

finally had to stop listening with 4 hrs left to go. it was a chore listening to it.

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Catching Up With Old Friends

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would only recommend this book for those who are already dedicated to the series. It was more like catching up with old friends than anything else. Fforde did not let us into the book world this time, and that has always been one of my favorite parts, and Thursday was the only character who really did anything of interest.

Which character – as performed by Emily Gray – was your favorite?

As always Emily Gray did a spectacular job on all the characters in this series.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Most Definitely! Even though it is a weak offering in the series (not the weak-est), it would still make a terrifically fun movie!

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I do not listen to zombie books!

My taste in books excludes the supernatural. Many people like this stuff, but I am not one of them. I should have read the reviews more carefully.

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A lot of deadly violence.

There's a lot of deadly violence descrbed in this book. It's not what I expected. Characters are readily shot to death. The shooters' personal status increases by their numbers of murders.

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Wish I'd skipped this one

I love all the other books in the Thursday Next series. It felt to me that this book slightly changed the personality of both Thursday and her daughter, making them raunchy in a way that doesn't fit their characters. There's an allusion to a new backstory in which Thursday had sex with coworkers for favors, and uncomfortable commentary on both female characters' breasts scattered throughout the book. I don't mind sex scenes in books, but this wasn't that. Some passages read like dirty Thursday Next fanfiction written by another author. I'll still recommend the series to people, but I'll suggest they stop at book six.

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