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jmcphers's review
4.0
This is Wodehouse doing what he does best: gleefully extracting humor from the increasingly desparate actions of dysfunctional characters caught in a complex net of romantic relationships, petty grudges, and the like.
In this case they're competing for a bunch of pearls, but in the last Wodehouse book I read, it was cow-creamer. It really doesn't matter because Wodehouse is so much fun to read that the plot itself is somehow of secondary importance.
Best of all, the opening page contains the following phrase:
She longed to run her fingers through his butter-colored hair.
In this case they're competing for a bunch of pearls, but in the last Wodehouse book I read, it was cow-creamer. It really doesn't matter because Wodehouse is so much fun to read that the plot itself is somehow of secondary importance.
Best of all, the opening page contains the following phrase:
She longed to run her fingers through his butter-colored hair.
shortthoughts's review
3.0
Aptly titled. I didn't find Monty Bodkin the most sympathetic of Wodehouse characters, but it was still a fun read. It won't stand up to the best of the Jeeves books. The ending seemed abrupt and little anticlimactic. There were certainly a few good twists and, as always, some great turns of phrase.
raehink's review
4.0
Wodehouse is wondrous! How can you go wrong with characters named Monty Bodkin and Gertrude Butterwick?
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