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Title: Jeeves & Bertie #11
Review: Previous: How Right You Are, Jeeves (Jeeves in the Offing)This volume of the series sees young Bertram Wooster deeper in the soup than ever before, when his desperate measures to salvage the floundering Fink-Nottle/Bassett romance fail utterly. Although Jeeves's solutions are always brilliant, this one is probably the most ingenious (and for a moment, shocking) of them all. While the plot is beginning to feel a bit contrived (it is, after all, basically the same as all the others), there are always enough eccentric characters (notably Captain Plank, who has Bertie nailed as a villain named Alpine Joe), lively interaction between the two principals (this time over a blue alpine hat with a pink feather), and wonderful, Woosterian language to keep us laughing along the way. Not the best of the lot, but certainly good enough!Next: Jeeves and the Tie that Binds (Much Obliged, Jeeves)
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