Ich liebe wie das Buch geschrieben ist und genieße den Humor und die Abenteuer. Aber der Sexismus der Zeit ist herauszulesen. Passiert etwas unverhofftes fällt jede Dame im Umkreis von 1 km in Ohnmacht. Wer kennt es nicht? Ist mir ständig beim lesen passiert. Ladys haltet euch fest, nicht das euch ein Schwächeanfall erwischt.

The book drew me into the story from the first page and I can only close the book after I have read at least two chapters. But, I have a little problem with the men in the book. Of course the musketeers are written very sympathically but the other men are... very interesting. Okay, it's no surprise that the king and the cardinal and his guardsmen were treated very unpleasantly and meanly, and it's also clear that Mr. Bonacieux isn't written as a very lovable thing, but the other men? The Duke of Backingham is the greatest simp in the universe. Not only does he come to the Queen's premises unannounced and only leave after the Queen has asked him to do so five times and given him his diamond barrettes, after which he only wanted to leave with a kind of souvenir. No! He just has a fucking shrine in his castle behind a wall with a life-size portrait of the queen.