A review by musicdeepdive
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

4.0

Even for a Dickens novel, this book opens at a bit of a turgid pace, and it's not his most immediate set of characters, but once you understand the direction he's going with the plot, you become invested and the characters become that much more vivid. It's debatable whether the book deserves the ending it gets, but the writing in those last chapters is among the most spellbinding material of Dickens' career to date, so I'll let it pass.