crazylady4 's review for:

Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

3.0

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I have a love, loathe relationship with this book. It took me an incredibly long time to read because a lot of it was so boring. Pages upon pages upon pages of descriptions of the various views of Paris from the towers of Notre-Dame that I ended up skipping because it was just too much. The book often went into long endess descriptions of Paris, buildings etc. Which I find tedious and boring. The actual story to be honest was somewhat predictable, but also weird and a bit unhinged. Deceit, obsession, murder, love, innocence, Naivete, tragedy, surprise, loss and more are all contained in this book. I've been made aware there are "tweaked" versions that are simplified and maybe if I had that version I would have enjoyed it more. It was interesting and the climax of the book did keep my attention and was well written. It was an adventure to finally finish.