LH’s Reviews > Notre-Dame de Paris > Status Update

le Prudent, King Louis XI, complains about just bills he has to pay, but spends almost triple on a cage for the Bishop of Verdun.
Oh yeah, lots have happened since my last update here. A war scene between one beautiful beast and a thousand truants included. But, we don't need to try to explain how amazing those pages were, only VH can do it right.

He did it, he saved her, and he was beautiful.

Most of my reading updates contains spoilers, so if anyone is reading this, which I don't think is the case, beware:


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La Esmeralda's lament and her plea for love made me very sad. About Phoebus's passing... Eh. I was THRILLED during those paragraphs, but I can't say I will miss the manipulative SOB.

Jehan Frollo is the pits!

Rich French girls bully La Esmeralda. She is in love with Phoebus. The Archdeacon isn't as nice as I thought he was. I reread Besos Para Golpes and could now identify that he is the one who calls Quasi and asks him to capture her. He also curses her on the square, along with Sachette.
Gringoire is great, by the way. He's just vibing along with Djali and his wife, whom he doesn't touch.

I never cry reading books, today I did well up during Quasi's flogging and his screaming "A drink!" three times before La Esmeralda went up to help him. Even Claude Frollo leaves him in despair. It's a beautiful book nonetheless. And it's a beautiful sadness you feel while reading it.

TU, ORA. Trou-aux-rats.
Cervantes paved the way for stories within stories, and Victor Hugo is doing a great job with the story of Paquette and her daughter.

Book Six, Chapter One.
I felt the saddest reading this book in this chapter. Quasimodo replying deferentially to the questions he did not understand made me frown and well up. Jehan Frollo, I don't even know what to say here. Does he not know Q. is his brother? Does he know and tries to hide it from the public? How was Q. captured? It felt strange to learn that Q. can form accurate sentences and I tried to imagine hi

"This Will Kill That" was amazing! What an incredible chapter, so interesting to understand V.H.'s perspective on Architecture vs Written Word. Gosh, that was a trip through time. I thought I wasn't going to like this chapter, but boy, was I wrong. I'd dare say it's one of my favorites so far.

Book Four was my favorite so far. In it we discover Quasimodo's background, Jehan Frollo's (that annoying brat from the beginning), and Claude Frollo's. I felt the Gothic vibe more intensely in these 6 chapters; and C.F.'s austerity and rigor was fascinating. It's so bittersweet to read about Q's relationship with the bells; how he loves them and feels they're all he has, except for C.
He's portrayed as animal like>