Sixwing’s Reviews > The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo > Status Update

...through all this, he managed to keep souvenirs for his daughter.

Man, it's dusty in here.

This book is so well written. I'm enjoying the commentary on Dumas' letters with Napoleon, although he's not reacting terribly wisely in some of them.

I am reminded that writing a FEELINGSLETTER about your demotion is unlikely to get good results.

I'm totally going to remember "does pull-ups with his horse for fun" as something to use in an OTT fantasy description.

Thomas-Alexandre's father is a horrorshow.

I have the distinct feeling of watching the foundations be laid for some of the worst threads of modern society, in the sketch of the laws that underpin the French empire.