“There is no word in the English language,” she said, “which conveys to me so little of defined meaning as that word vixen. But she was alive to the romance of the thing, and was in love with the idea of being in love, (Trollope, 81) “She is the greatest vixen in all London.”… She had seen no one who had so touched her. There was as yet nothing of such love in her bosom. Now she desired to be so in love that she could surrender everything to her love. The villain is deliciously heartless the main heroes are all clever and brave and, of course, handsome. It was so much fun! First of all, the characters swear with words like “Egads!” and “Zooks!”, lol. I’m glad that I read this book, but I won’t be keeping it.īest. The only chapter I enjoyed was the El Dorado chapter I’ve always like utopias. I was also horrified by the pictures they were very gruesome, which matched the gruesome violence throughout the story. The B&N edition that I read just didn’t have a good enough intro (half the intro just summarised the book, chapter by chapter, how dumb is that?) for me the intro didn’t give me any info I didn’t already know. I see how other people would enjoy it, but for me the only good thing about it was that the chapters and book itself were short. I went in knowing that this was supposed to be a philosophical novel. If you enjoy sprawling Victorian lit, Trollope might just be for you! His passages when characters go fox hunting are simple stunning. :D His writing kept the book moving, even when he meandered from the plot. I enjoyed his little sidenotes to the reader, and I hated his villains and loved his heroes just like he expected me to. But, for some reason, Trollope and I get along perfectly. lol Trollope writes the same kind of character-rich, diversion-full, multiple-plot books that Dickens does. However, after reading The Eustace Diamonds, I think that Trollope is my Dickens. I’m not a huge Dickens girl I love A Tale of Two Cities and Pickwick Papers, but I could leave the rest of his books I’ve read.

The eustace diamonds review