A review by lory_enterenchanted
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

3.5

It took me months, but I finally made it through! What can I say about this classic melodrama!? The earlier part in the prison was great - later on I got a bit tired of the convolutions of the Count's revenge plot. I don't believe in a vengeful God, so that aspect of the story was uncomfortable, and overall the moral message got a bit muddled. I wish Dantes could have gotten back together with Mercedes in the end, and Haydee found another lover (it's weird for her to fall in love with her foster father/master). And I wish we could have heard more of Eugenie! A long, intricately plotted and sometimes confusing, but ultimately not very complex story.