The Count of Monte Cristo

Before I sleep I always read something, a manga a manhwa or maybe continue an ongoing novel. So, one night I was in a mood to read something classic, old and historic. Then I stumbled upon this historical fiction book The Count of Monte Cristo and I read its description and saw its author is, the legendary Alexandre Dumas (the author of The Three Musketeers). I instantly downloaded the book and started reading it with great interest. The vocabulary was a bit sophisticated, but it engaged me. So, I see that our main character The Count of Monte Cristo aka Edmond Dantes is an honest, honorable and hard-working young man who wants to make it big make his father proud and marry his lover, Mercedes. But he is pathetically naive and gullible and lacks even the basic understanding of the world around him and this same unsuspecting nature and naivety landed him in a situation that turned his whole life upside down. He is wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years, never given a trial. His prime years lost, he was 19 when he was imprisoned and escaped Château d’If at 33. On top of losing his father who succumbed to the shock of his son’s imprisonment he also lost his lover Mercedes to none other than Fernand Mondego the very man who falsely sent a report against him in an attempt to covet Mercedes from Dantes. The prison turned the innocent and trusting Edmond to a calculating, charming and a cunning man who possessed the power of influencing people and events around him. The story is a bit slow from the part where Dantes escapes from the prison to him finally setting foot in Paris and meeting his conspirators and taking revenge. I was getting a bit annoyed at why Dantes is not taking revenge immediately after finding the treasure on the Monte Cristo Island, why is he wasting more years especially losing all those precious 14 years in prison. Figures he was actually setting up all the pieces on the board before he could finally get to the showdown. I am on page 800 of the book, and I am pretty excited how it will all turn up.