3.5 love Dumas and his storytelling. This one seemed more of a summary/ending of characters and would have been better received if I had read the Three musketeers first.

Not in the same league as The Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo. I stuck with it because I wanted to see what happens, but it's just not that exciting until near the last quarter. It's too wordy, too long, extremely slow, and the musketeer characters weren't really needed.

Tbh someone should've left a certain king in the Bastille; Porthos is a real best friend tho, the only musketeers that I care for

Beautiful book, love the language.

I don’t know what happened but this felt like a completely different author from The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Christo. I don’t know if my expectations were too high after those books but I did not care for this one at all.

I don't even want to think about this book.

Another enjoyable classic trying to make a dent in my collection.

Another boring work from Monsieur Dumas after The Three Musketeers.

Okay okay, not that boring. Perhaps I'm not accustomed in reading "royal conversations" or whatever high level language used by Dumas, but I find it really dull. It was a struggle for me to finish that book, with more than 350 pages. I can read Victor Hugo's 1000-pages (at least) Les Miserables, but this book? There's just too many descriptions and the dialogues made me kinda dizzy.

Why I do not give only one stars in this review is because the characters are very strong. Who could forget Athos' nobility, Aramis' vast resources/talents, Porthos' loyalty and last but not least, D'Artagnan's heroism? The beginning and the middle part of the book make you sleepy, but not the ending. Hence, the three stars :D

One more thing, the movie (with Leonardo di Caprio) really sucked. Those Hollywood morons always manage to destroy literatures.