Part of an ongoing reread of the series, which is my favorite.
THIS BOOK IS SO GREAT. It starts off with Francis-and-Richard shenanigans, and then you get a lot of people trying to beat up or murder Francis, and you get Jerrott, finally, and um.... spoiler spoiler spoiler SPOILER spoiler SPOILER SPOILER!!!!!!!!! I will never forget how it felt to read this the first time, and getting to the end of the book, and going, "Oh holy shit, no. NO. OH MY GOD!!!!" when the reveal came through.
Note: Francis does a thing in here that seems unforgivable, but turns out just to be kind of shitty. I'm not delighted by it, but A) it's the 16th century, and B) it was written in the 1960s. Anyway, he pays for it, more or less.
Jerrott couldn't be more in love with Francis, or angrier about it, and I'm still delighted.
Grade: A
#13 in 2016
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