Phew! It took me a long time to finish this book! It is a good book but I never managed to really get attached to the characters or the story. You can feel that, on occasions, Trollope is just trying to fill space, as it was standard for novels to be written in 2 or 3 volumes at the time. Another very annoying habit of him is to comment on the story or the feelings of the characters in the first person, thus reminding you that you are indeed reading a book and sort of preventing you from really getting immersed in it.

Having said this, the further you get in the book, the more interesting it becomes as you discover new facets of characters you thought you knew completely. And, like life, none of them is fully good nor fully evil, all of them are completely human.