Twenty Years After (The D'Artagnan Romances #2)

A classic, but the characters and adventures seem more ‘comic book' than book 1 and the book is too long.

I really wonder whether Dumas actually wrote this novel or whether it was one of his aids, who wrote it. I never thought D'Artagnan would end up being a despicable man and Athos a ridiculous parody, but that's how they appear here. In the book only D'Artagnan makes plan and solves problem, which is completely ridiculous, given the resources of both Athos and Aramis. Also there isn't a really good villain as in the first book, which makes it terribly weak on all accounts. Two stars is the maximum a could give to this terrible downer.