Refusal (Felix Francis)

I've generally heard that the Felix Francis continuations of Dick Francis's franchise aren't worth reading, but I saw one of these in the used bookstore - it's Sid Halley #5, Refusal - and decided that since it was that specific one and I'd just been reading the earlier Halley books, I'd go ahead and give it a try.

And honestly - I liked it. I don't think it was equal to Francis at his best by any means, but it was an entertaining thriller and held my interest. I think I was more forgiving of the occasional Too Stupid To Live moments (of which there were definitely a few) because of having just recently read Twice Shy, complained about earlier, which also had that problem but even worse, and that one was legit by the original Francis. But on the whole, I enjoyed this, and I liked the character stuff a lot; in particular he did one thing I'd been wanting Dick Francis to do for the entire series, but he never obliged me ...

( Spoilers )

Oops

I appear to have tripped and signed up for Amperslash Exchange, the exchange of ambiguous character relationships. Is it a & or a /? We just don't know! (aka the uneasy middle ground in which a large part of my id lies.)

https://amperslashexchange.dreamwidth.org/

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/AmperslashExchange2023/profile

Oh no this would also be perfect for Captain Marvel, but they're not in the tagset ... but the mods did say you can email for things to be added; I might be forced to do that ...