A review by cpcabaniss
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

4.0

“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”

I very much enjoyed reading this novel. There were some of the side stories that had a bit more focus than I would have preferred, but everything comes together nicely in the end and I very much enjoyed the main four to six perspective characters that we were invested in.

Eugene has been a favorite character since I watched the miniseries from 1998 and I did enjoy how he was written. He had a lot of problems, but I was happy with where his story took him.

This has some great mystery elements, characters who grow as the story progresses, characters (like Charlie Hexam) who you can despise for being horrible. Characters to feel sorry for. It really has some excellent elements and I'm sure it is a story I will revisit in the future.