A review by kellysings
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

3.0

It was alright. Good, but not great. A lot of people in my English class surprised me by saying they really liked it, especially the ending, but I saw it coming and thought it was slightly Deus Ex Machina. The character of Lucy annoyed me, and I can never get through Dickens's writing style without a lot of patience, but I really liked the levels and complexities of Sydney Carton. To me, he and the delightfully evil Madame Defarge redeemed the book for me, as well as the interesting social commentary on the French Revolution. If you are willing to suffer through incredibly long descriptions and a couple monotonous chapters, in the end this is a interesting book about love, sacrifice, and the French Revolution that i think ultimately ends up being worth the read.