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swirls's review against another edition
3.0
It's early Wodehouse, not quite the nonstop comedy of his later books. It's still a screwball comedy, but it has SAD moments (how dare) and is one of the few Wodehouse novels where reality occasionally rears its ugly head. There's heartbreak and loss, and while he doesn't go so far as to let any character actually die, the Spanish flu is raging in the background and actually affecting the lives of the characters.
I didn't hate it, but I started devouring Wodehouse for comfort in 2020 and prefer them to be a bit more "everything is beautiful and nothing hurts" all the time. But he was just getting started here!
I didn't hate it, but I started devouring Wodehouse for comfort in 2020 and prefer them to be a bit more "everything is beautiful and nothing hurts" all the time. But he was just getting started here!
mimi_jaja's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
radcarlawho's review against another edition
5.0
I simply adore this book! I will definitely be reading it again and again. It's just perfect.
roshk99's review against another edition
3.0
Not as good as the Jeeves or Blandings series, but still funny.
gmvader's review against another edition
3.0
I like Wodehouse as much as the next guy, assuming the next guy thinks he’s hilarious. He made a name for himself writing comedies about British nobility that portrayed them as outlandishly silly and somewhat lacking in intelligence. His Bertie Wooster (and his butler named Jeeves) stories are the ones he is most famous for.
What I didn’t know, until I read this book, was that he also wrote romantic comedy. I thought I was getting another rich-noble-gets-himself-in-trouble kind of story. Instead I got a story about a young girl who is not wealthy but has to work for a living and her well-meaning attempts to help everybody around her gain whatever it is that will make them happy.
This is not as funny as Wodehouse later books but it is at least as entertaining and a far sight cleaner than most of the ‘romance’ books that are written today.
What I didn’t know, until I read this book, was that he also wrote romantic comedy. I thought I was getting another rich-noble-gets-himself-in-trouble kind of story. Instead I got a story about a young girl who is not wealthy but has to work for a living and her well-meaning attempts to help everybody around her gain whatever it is that will make them happy.
This is not as funny as Wodehouse later books but it is at least as entertaining and a far sight cleaner than most of the ‘romance’ books that are written today.