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A review by mood_reader_will_dnf
Nerve by Dick Francis
4.0
This in a blanket review of all DF books. I am choosing this book because it was my first, My favorite is the architect/house flipper one. I have them on a shelf I’ve labeled Comfort Food, because I’ve read them all like 5 times and for about a majority of them I can’t remember which one’s which. Even the one’s I can remember it’s mostly “the photographer one” or “the glass blower one.” However I LOVE these books. The repeated elements are described in other reviews. The ones with his son (Felix Francis) had the protagonists doing some morally ambiguous things; nuance/having to think is not what I read them for, so i stopped.
6/7/20 [not fully re-read]- My bad. Probably not my first. So far I don’t remember this one at all except that it’s The Incest One (the MC is in love w/ his own first cousin...Thankfully she does not reciprocate; I really have no idea how that arc ends though a sinking feeling she says ok at the end. Gah, I hope not!) I am so grossed out by that idea that it’s possible I didn’t even finish it, and I doubt I would’ve gone on to read all of DF’s books If I had started with this one. I think I started with Enquiry, though that one has a weird 1950’s portrayal of the MCs romantic partner, so I’m not positive. (So far 2.25 stars)
6/29/20 - yep, I was right, they get together, thus cementing the nickname The Incest One (DF tries to explain it’s not incest...and maybe at that time in England they had a different bar...but for me it is). I’m pretty sure, actually that I did indeed read this, because though I don’t remember the climax, I knew/suspected the bad guy from pretty early on, and it contained one of my favorite “hero in peril” scenes.
I think in the current climate the fact that he never (that I can think of) goes to the police is a plus for me. The MCs are simultaneously vengeful, and extremely merciful (the bad guy got off a lot lighter than he deserved) so I think I might raise it to 3* for the mystery, also because it was fairly easy for me to just skim, or even skip, the parts with his cousin (gag)
6/7/20 [not fully re-read]- My bad. Probably not my first. So far I don’t remember this one at all except that it’s The Incest One (the MC is in love w/ his own first cousin...Thankfully she does not reciprocate; I really have no idea how that arc ends though a sinking feeling she says ok at the end. Gah, I hope not!) I am so grossed out by that idea that it’s possible I didn’t even finish it, and I doubt I would’ve gone on to read all of DF’s books If I had started with this one. I think I started with Enquiry, though that one has a weird 1950’s portrayal of the MCs romantic partner, so I’m not positive. (So far 2.25 stars)
6/29/20 - yep, I was right, they get together, thus cementing the nickname The Incest One (DF tries to explain it’s not incest...and maybe at that time in England they had a different bar...but for me it is). I’m pretty sure, actually that I did indeed read this, because though I don’t remember the climax, I knew/suspected the bad guy from pretty early on, and it contained one of my favorite “hero in peril” scenes.
I think in the current climate the fact that he never (that I can think of) goes to the police is a plus for me. The MCs are simultaneously vengeful, and extremely merciful (the bad guy got off a lot lighter than he deserved) so I think I might raise it to 3* for the mystery, also because it was fairly easy for me to just skim, or even skip, the parts with his cousin (gag)