Another fun romp through the weird nursery rhyme, folk-lore world created by Jasper Fforde. I'm bummed this was the second and last of this series. A third book was referenced, but to date it has not been published.
There were times I got a little lost in some of the complexity of the scientific explanations of, well, I won't spoil it for you. I found I just didn't let myself get bogged down in trying to wrap my head around it. I instead enjoyed meeting old and new nursery rhyme friends - the 3 bears, the Gingerbreadman, great-long-red-legged-scissor-man.
I feel like I could return to the Thursday Next series and give them another go.
Summary from Goodreads: The Gingerbreadman—psychopath, sadist, genius, and killer—is on the loose. But it isn’t Jack Spratt’s case. He and Mary Mary have been demoted to Missing Persons. Missing Persons looks like a boring assignment until a chance encounter leads them into the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta “Goldy” Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Mole. Last to see her alive? The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen’s wood.
Quotes:"She didn't have any children of her own - unless you counted her collection of ex-boyfriends"
"...because punishment and incarceration are but aspects of the penal system. We live in a society that values revenge, revenge for the victims and their families."
"Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition."
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