Jacob Hull’s Reviews > The Count of Monte Cristo > Status Update

Oh dear.. ohhh deary me. As it comes to Andrea’s turn to sign, his actions have come back to bite him. Painfully. The joke goes as follows:

2 gendarmes walk into a house. Andrea runs.

Not even funny. Anyways! The police come to arrest him for murdering Caderousse, and in Caderousse pocket he finds a letter addressed to Danglars, which ties him in weirdly enough.

I feel like I’ve grown so accustomed to all of these characters that I’m too busy enjoying the story then annotating. Which I suppose is a good thing, I’m paying attention to the story and enjoying it.

Valentine was poisoned! But, Nortier suspected it would happen and tried his best to strengthen her against it. As a result, she lives!

I feel like I was struggling to get round the book towards the end. Probably just too much reading today. Alas, Albert challenged the count to a duel and after Mercedes talked the count out of it and sparing her son; he crumbled and resigned from winning. However, Albert miraculously changed his decision and spared the count. Now, Albert and Mercedes are fleeing, with no possessions

On the very same night Edmond recieved a visit from Mme Morcerf. She came in, and said “Edmond! You just not kill my son!”. Holy shit. I genuinely teared up reading that. We haven’t heard his name spoken in like 700 pages, and to hear it again felt unreal. That is the length of several books, and all of a sudden, he’s been summed so powerfully by the woman he loves.

Whoah. Albert figured it out. He has the first half of the puzzle solved. He PERFECTLY pieced together what the count has done and how he has played his Parisian friends to act against eachother (page 969). Now he is to confront the count.

Put this book in the goat debate. Rn. The Abbe, after an intense come-to-Jesus moment with Caderousse after he was murdered (by Benedetto, not Ali) reveals himself to Caderousse in his final moments… Edmond. Dantes.

Holy shittt bro get SMOKED. Caderousse tried to rob him, someone informed the count of Caderousse’ plans. The count and Ali waited, and Ali went down, the count transformed to the Abbé and basically told him to stop what he was doing. He also figured out about Benedetto and how he knows the count. Nuts. Anyways, Caderousse got murdered by Ali, out of NOWHERE.

So, Andrea visits his good “friend” Caderousse. He seems to believe that the count is his father when in reality it is his butler, Signor Bertuccio, who I believe is buying and furnishing a house in Normandy presently. Caderousse also has (with the help of Andrea) a plan to steal from the count…

I also LOVE how everything is starting to sour. The count has beautifully set this up in a way to make everything fall in place.. it’s almost like he’s planned it all for years!