I enjoyed Great Expectations, and loved David Copperfield, so this was a bit of a let down. This book is heavy on the descriptive, and while some of the it is fantastic (eg: chapter 1), a lot just seems like filler that clogged the story and slowed everything down. Some of the characters were also frustratingly verbose, which may have been meant to make a point about them, but the overall effect was to drag things out.

There were some great characters, and some great moments, but the book would have been better if a good third had been left out.