A Tale of Two Cities Review

A Tale of Two Cities

Kate Hardy

            A Tale of Two Cities was a tough read. For starters, the beginning of the novel was very boring and hard to follow. I could not tell where Dickens was trying to take his story line. As I got further into the book it became more interesting, but honestly still extremely hard to follow. Though there are numerous Dickens lovers out there, I must admit, I am not one of them. I found the way he said things hard to understand and his story line very jumpy. At one moment he is London and the next is in Paris, and there is not much of a hint that the setting is changing. Though things in the end to interestingly get tied together, for me there were still a lot of loose ends. It may be that since I did not understand the reading very well, that maybe I missed out on some things or did not pick up on important events that ended up being significant, but not everything in the end satisfied me. Personally, being a slow reader and a sort of oblivious reader, I did not end up liking the book very much at all. I did pick up on some old humor though that lightened the novel a bit for me. Overall, I did not like this novel.