I loved the Thursday Next series, and perhaps I am not as much of a sci-fi buff as some fans of this series. It just felt like too much in the end. The other world he talks about is so detailed and so obscure and so different that it was hard for me to grasp onto. I thought it was well conceived but I'm so distracted by the details and differences and thoroughness of it that I can't engage and didn't care about the characters in the end, so I gave it up.