![]() ![]() until we reach the conclusion, if i can use that term since its about 10 chapters long. Still Dumas manages to make it work, and the awful structure does at least mean you never know what might happen next.ĭumas even gets some use out of Raoul, the most worthless of side characters, in his first major section at least. Its a terrible structure where the momentum drops at each switch and has to start to build up again. ![]() ![]() Which it will continue to do throughout the novel as there isn't actually any main character. I was in, the first 20% was 5-stars even with some interruptions to worldbuild, but then after a climax it suddenly switches characters. Boy was i wrong, this had such an easy almost pulpy tone to it, perhaps a tad hard to parse during some dialogue but overall very smooth and a nice style. I was reluctant to read this due to the ubiquity of the Musketeers and because for whatever reason i had assumed Dumas to be a high-brow difficult author. ![]()
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