Reviews - Greven av monte cristo

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Greven av monte cristo

Alexandre Dumas

4.32 AVERAGE

fantine525's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Listen, I love this book with my whole heart, but I can’t honestly give it 5 stars, because I just don’t like the ending;

you know, the whole thing with Haydee… ick

maredd60's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This was a tough read for me and I listened to this story with someone who had read it previously. I had a chart with all of the characters with plot development. It was well written and worth my time and effort.

lemao_hehe's review against another edition

5.0

THE DRAMA!

This book was a doozy! I loved the depth in which Dumas wrote the characters and the plot. It was so twisty and exciting, and truly drawn out in the best of ways. And let me

Favorite quote - "There is neither happiness nor misery in the world. There is only the comparison of one state with another; nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what i tis to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. All human wisdom is contained in these two words - 'wait' and 'hope.'"

In the unsettling current times, I really needed to hear that last line - "wait" and "hope."

jcr555's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

aperophrodite's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jennyeb15's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

sim1's review against another edition

4.0

Still holds up as a great revenge story! The build up is really cool and makes the individual revenges really satisfying. I also like how in the end some stuff happens that almost hurt the ppl Dante cared about and it shows that blindly going after these people AND their families may be problematic... like Dates himself kinda realizes this himself in the end (my interpretation)

This is a loooong book...the audiobook is 50+ hours. Thats aaaall the Sherlock holmes stories combined!
Bit honestly it didn't feel that long..it was really engaging all the way through...I think the only time I was a little bored was like halfway through when the Count first appeared in Italy...there was a bit of wierd filler stuff like Vampas whole ass backstory that honestly was just not necessary. Apart from that...great