Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

27 reviews

soph22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

No words, just… I love it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Infidelity, Murder, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

In a book that is so dark for the majority of its (very numerous) pages, I found the ending to be incredibly hopeful and joyous. Although the romantic in me hoped

that Dantes and Mercedes would end up together

. Surprisingly, I found very little of this book to be superfluous; indeed, it was very satisfying to watch the Count weave his complicated web of revenge. I found myself rooting for unlikely heroes, and marveling at the tangled mess where these characters lives had intertwined. I was also utterly surprised and delighted to see two queer characters who find a happy end in this book! Altogether worth the read, even though it was a long time coming for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Grief, Classism, Murder, Death, Death of parent, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexism, Confinement, Gun violence, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Slavery, Torture, War, Homophobia, Ableism, Racial slurs, Racism, and Infidelity

chocolatethief's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Racism, Suicide, Murder, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Classism, Infidelity, and Slavery

doodeedoda's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Drug use, Death, Suicide, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent, Child death, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Racial slurs, Alcohol, Slavery, and Infidelity

james2021's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The ending was not what I expected but I liked it. My main issue with the length was

Vampa’s backstory (don’t think this a spoiler but alas)

, the rest was fair length. I’d say it’s a page-turner for  the majority of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Abandonment, and Confinement

Moderate: Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death of parent, Death, Slavery, Child death, Suicide attempt, and Blood

Minor: Stalking and Drug use

vampireph4ze's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

a wonderful and also immensely difficult book to read. the story-telling by Dumas is brilliant, and i couldn't help but become absolutely sucked in when the story really got going. i do not really know what compelled me to actually finish this book (i started it around 2-3 years ago), but even throughout the many breaks i took i still wanted to come back to it - and it was worth it. most of the book is build-up, and then you see people's true characters really pop out towards the end. this book needs patience and yet a lust for adventure (and included a LOT of philosophical topics when you really look for them: is revenge good? what are our motives for treating others? what causes the human brain to break? etc.). plus, if you have a general love for the extravagant and period-typical style of writing, this is right up your alley. 

the story of revenge is always a perfect plot, and the twists and turns will have you trying your hardest not to look ahead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child death, Grief, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment and Infidelity

cerilouisereads's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Grief, Abandonment, Infidelity, Murder, and Violence

lief_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Confinement, Murder, Slavery, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

reneebkreviews's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Infidelity, Death, Suicide attempt, Slavery, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexism and Torture

eimearz's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

My absolute favourite book of all time. Dumas is a master at writing slowly-unraveling plots, and I am in a perpetual state of rereading it despite its length.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Slavery, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Lesbophobia, Racism, Slavery, Ableism, Cultural appropriation, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, and Antisemitism