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THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS is the third book to feature the Thursday Next. This book continues the situation described at the end of LOST IN A GOOD BOOK. Next has entered CAVERSHAM HEIGHTS in order to have her baby and plot the best way to return her husband to the living. (He was erased in the previous book, which means she is the only person that remembers he ever existed.) Next is slowly gaining the ability to jump into books and feels that CAVERSHAM HEIGHTS would be the ideal book to hide out; unfortunately things do not work out as she plans. The book is under threat of being disbanded – a book first goes to the well of lost plots when it does not become published; however, if it remains unnoticeable the book, and all of its characters are taken apart, and either placed elsewhere or lost completely. Next also is given two generics (stock characters who will slowly turn into either main characters or secondary characters) who are learning how to become individual characters. Next also has to finish her apprenticeship in Jurisfiction. Jurisfiction is done by book characters who make sure that the storyline continues as it was written regardless of the actions of the characters. Next must continue her quest for peace, while maintaining the storyline of CAVERSHAM HEIGHTS and fighting the battles of Jurisfiction. THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS expands upon the ideas created in Fforde's two previous books, THE EYRE AFFAIR and LOST IN A GOOD BOOK. Fforde takes all of the elements of English grammar and gives them a place to roam free. In Fforde's world, characters can jump from book to book and interact with the characters in other books. They are not supposed to interact with the plot, and Jurisfiction agents are there to make sure changes do not occur. One of the most interesting "creatures" to spring from this world, are the grammasites who feed on grammar. They wander around eating bits of grammar and causing unforeseen problems due to their behavior – they can make words change meaning as well as cause people to talk backwards. In brief, grammasites can destroy books. Jasper Fforde does not write straightforward, coherent books. His books fly all over the place taking the reader on amusing romps through literary elements normally ignored by the average reader. All of the terms and literary references are used throughout English grammar classes everywhere. While any reader can enjoy Fforde's works, those who have themselves struggled with a difficult simile will appreciate the book much more.
Reviewed by Sarah Dudley, July 2003
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