I read The Three Musketeers a few years back, and really enjoyed it. I didn’t fully realize that there is a book in between that and this, along with a part 1 for Man in the Iron Mask!

Unfortunately, the story does not stand alone well by itself. While the first half deals with the Iron Masked Man & held great adventure, the second half tied up loose ends and gave endings to the main characters stories. Since I missed half the text, it was not very satisfying.

I would very much like to return and read the d’Artagnan romances in sequence some time in the future, which I’m sure would raise my rating.

Apart from this, I was greatly impressed with the prose of the book, which seemed quite ahead of its time.