Rui Hellen’s Reviews > Les Misérables > Status Update

Why does there have to be so many side rants 😔 At least it’s getting good again.

This may be the first book I recommend to read abridged… I love parts of it but there are long spaces which just drag on too much. It’s a shame as the main story is really captivating. Still enjoying it though

Straight heat right up until I was hit with at least 50 pages of the Battle of Waterloo… Intensely boring. I’m not surprised the pacing is bad - but it was just so hard to get through that section. I can’t wait to actually get back to the characters now that it’s done.

57 pages to get to Jean Valjean, not bad for an old book. I assumed it would be more 🤷‍♀️ Just finished book 3, 112 pages to get to Fantine and book 6 is titled Javert at page 184 so I’m assuming I’ll start to finish the introduction phase shortly… It’s been engrossing so far! I can’t wait to see where it goes (I’m guessing it will inch it’s way towards misery… shocker)