I loved [b:The Eyre Affair|27003|The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)|Jasper Fforde|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1445540555s/27003.jpg|3436605]. I loved the first third or even half of Lost in a Good Book too. It has a lot of the fun aspects of the first book, and funny lines, like this one:

SO-12 take retrosnatch very seriously and they assure me that it is always detected, sooner or later or both--and dealt with severely.

But then the plot fell apart for me. There is a lot of pressure on Thursday. (Lander is eradicated, the world is about to end, someone is trying to kill her, etc.) Yet she is just running around doing inconsequential stuff (trial, driving, book faire, Spike, etc) or playing into the hands of the enemy.

A big element of the first book's enjoyment for me was the wild-eyed "where am I" feeling. This is of course hard to replicate in a sequel. But I feel like more could have been attempted on this front as well.