Reviews - Our Mutual Friend:

428 reviews for:

Our Mutual Friend:

Charles Dickens

4.02 AVERAGE

caffee's review against another edition

4.0

challenging funny lighthearted relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

laur31's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

hadadelamiopia's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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: Complicated

A bunch of things in this book are confusing, but Bella and John’s story make the whole thing worth it. It only took Charles Dickens’s whole life to write a book full of amazing, girlboss women, but at least he did it. Easily his best book IMO. Would have liked to see more of Lizzie and Bella together, though.

Content Warnings

bethriley's review against another edition

3.0

So, so, so long. Maybe the superfluous, though artfully written, rambling would have worked better in its initial release in installments over 19 months, but as a single book, it feels kind of like a filibuster in book form most of the time. Would recommend to Dickens lovers only.

crysrowe's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

vibeke_hiatt's review against another edition

3.0

It took 11 years, but I finally finished this book. If it had been written by Anthony Trollope, it might have taken me only two weeks. Dickens doesn't have Elizabeth Gaskell's or Anthony Trollope's way with words, but he does craft an interesting story. I remember enjoying this book when I started it, but for some reason I set it down a few years ago with only 100 pages left and didn't pick it back up again until this week. Hopefully, I'll have better luck with Great Expectations.

ratgirlreads's review against another edition

3.0

I wonder what Dickens would consider an appropriate method to employ to discover whether your husband or husband-to-be was the sort of person who would lie about his identity and involve your guardians in a complicated scheme to test your character, in case that sounds like an undesirable quality in a man to you.