Unabridged Audiobook
Very light and witty. I love the adult twists on children's tales. I can't wait for the next one.
Clever as always but for some reason I didn't enjoy it as much as I did The Big Over Easy. Perhaps the more time you spend in Nursery Crimes land the more things seem stale. Still, you have to give credit to Jasper Fforde -- his books are always entertaining.
Love Fforde, am enamored with the NCD books, but really miss Prebble's voice and characterizations. Prebble is a much sexier, much more Prussian Greta. And Jack's voice isn't quite as warm. He needs to be warm, as a person of dubious existence. ( I think that's right..?)
Packed from beginning to end with wit, humor, crime, and fairy tale characters, Fforde's nursery crimes, er, rhymes for adults provide a refreshing spin on modern fiction. The Fourth Bear is filled with intelligent double-entendres, head-spinning mystery, and sly comedy. Fforde again knocks my socks off, grammarian or not, and I can attest that it's not too cold and not too hot....
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