Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fford (2003)

This is the second Thursday Next book and I should have reviewed it as soon as I finished reading it, but life got busy. There are way too many details I have already forgotten, which make these books so interesting. These books are intense to read, as you have to pay attention - they are full of literary references, funny names and the alternate world is just off enough. You feel you are in your own time and space, and then some major detail in life is so different, like mammoths still walking the earth, or the ability to travel to China through the earth's core in a matter of hours. And of course the Literary Division of the government which has to keep constant vigil that book characters act as they are supposed to.

I believe I said that things seemed to wrap up too neatly at the end of the first Thursday Next book. Well they all got unraveled. Her new husband was "time slipped" so that only she remembers that he existed as an adult, and she has to go into Poe's "Raven" to retrieve a bad guy she left there in the last book in exchange for getting her husband back. She has to figure out how to travel into books, as the machine she used in The Eyre Affair was destroyed. Fun, but intense.