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A review by sistermagpie
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
4.0
While Armadale isn't one of Wilkie Collins' most famous books, it's full of the sort of thing he's known for--there's doubles, questions of fate, and most importantly, plots and counter-plots galore. Like in No Name part of the fun of the book is seeing people plotting against others enough to make you fear for them, only to have the plot fall apart by the next chapter so that you don't know what's going ot happen. I spent a lot of the book yelling "Don't be a fool!" at one character or another, and had at least a little sympathy for everyone in the end, even if some of it was reluctant.
The book also made me laugh out loud several times. Of the two Allan Armadales, one is intelligent and nervous (and also biracial) and the other is like a golden retriever in human form, skipping through life thinking he's in a boy's adventure tale instead of a Gothic novel. The scene where he and his equally dim love interest attempt to put their heads together over a law book was hysterical.
To sum up: when I'd gotten to the last 100 pages (this morning) my Nook refused to wake up (still haven't fixed it!) and jumped onto Project Gutenberg to finish it because I didn't want to wait.
The book also made me laugh out loud several times. Of the two Allan Armadales, one is intelligent and nervous (and also biracial) and the other is like a golden retriever in human form, skipping through life thinking he's in a boy's adventure tale instead of a Gothic novel. The scene where he and his equally dim love interest attempt to put their heads together over a law book was hysterical.
To sum up: when I'd gotten to the last 100 pages (this morning) my Nook refused to wake up (still haven't fixed it!) and jumped onto Project Gutenberg to finish it because I didn't want to wait.