Sterlingcindysu's Reviews > The Last Dickens

Pearl packs so much in one of his novels--tons of research, several plot lines and tons of description. The only complaint I have with his novels is probably one of age: when I pick up the book after a day away, I forget who was who, or where they were, or what decade it is. It's easily remedied by re-reading a page or 2, but it's always good to read one of his books in as few sittings as possible.

I haven't read much Dickens. I have another historical novel Girl in a Blue Dress in my TBR list but no Dickens. Really, I think I've only read A Christmas Carol. So this is about The Mystery of Edwin Drood and how publishers, English and American, legit and not are trying to figure out the ending. If only Dickens had told Queen Victoria how it ended when he offered!



I read The Last Bookaneer before this one, so a few of those characters were familiar to me.