Joanie Collette’s Reviews > The Count of Monte Cristo > Status Update

“Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparent.” p.891

More people died. But oh my God chapters 83 & 84 are incredible… literally WTF

All of a sudden everyone’s dying

Dumas has mastered the art of foreshadowing

Just keeps getting more and more entertaining, with so much drama. A ton of details/character relationships to remember but I’m having a blast 😛

‘an all-wise Providence does not permit sinners to escape so easily from the punishment they have merited on earth, but reserves them to aid its own designs, using them as instruments whereby to work its vengeance on the guilty.'

OH MY GOD????

Chapter 36 was a banger 😮‍💨

Wow

Wdym he was falsely convicted, spent 14 years imprisoned, plotted his escape, escaped the island, set out to find a treasure, found the treasure, and there are still 1,000 pages left, I’m lowkey scared like damn that’s a lot of revenge