A review by frappucinno
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

5.0

still crying, what the heck. i knew les misérables was a really famous novel (including the musical adaption, too), but when i picked this up for our required reading, i didn't think i'd be this.. affected.

like, wow. i don't even know where to start or what to say. i have so many feelings about this book. hatred for marius (no rights for you, you suck), admiration for jean valjean, pity for the thenardiers, support for the les amis de l'abc.. just, a lot.

i've been so busy this month that this is the only book i've picked up for the whole entirety of it and happy to say that i don't regret it.

"Friends, the hour in which we live, and in which I speak to you, is a gloomy hour, but of such is the terrible price of the future. A revolution is a tollgate. Oh! The human race shall be delivered, uplifted, and consoled! We affirm it on this barricade. Whence shall arise the shout of love, if it be not from the summit of sacrifice?"