David’s Reviews > Drood > Status Update

Not much left now. Dickens has died which likely means there's not much left except to reveal whether Drood is real or not. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if the book ends without ever revealing the truth.

Second day in a row I forgot to update after reading and only did it right before bed. I like the book but the treatment of dogs really bothers me. I absolutely hated the puppy scene that went on with Wilkie.

Geez, Dickens turned into a d**k the last few pages. I'm wondering if this means he and Wilkie are having a falling out or if it was just Dickens way of escaping Wilkie so he can go see Drood by himself.

It's hard to tell how I feel about the book. Any time something interesting happens (such as the sudden illness of one character being revealed as someone else's fault), the scene then changes to something uninteresting (the pointless "attack" on Undertown).

The last hour of reading has been mostly pretty slow with a large chunk of those pages describing a boring "hallucinating" but things certainly picked up when an unexpected character was brutally murdered and Wilkie is forced to realize he may have been wrong about the existence of Drood.

Getting pretty interesting. I love the way Simmons uses a lot of actual historical moments in the novel. It's amusing the way Wilkie constantly shifted the name of the book he was writing, only for Dickens to suggest a different name entirely. This version of Dickens is a very interesting character.