I can't review really b/c I don't have context to compare to its precursors. I am not used to reading books where the narrator is in the foreground and takes up whole chapters. I chuckled at the descriptions of thought processes of scoundrels, thieves and hypocrites (and doctors don't forget doctors!). The servants exist in the book simply to provide verbal cannon fodder; to pester and annoy. Though the biggest buffoon in the book is Squire Western. I listened to the audio-book and the narrator had to yell all of the Squire Western dialog. Anyway I finished this forty hour audio-book that I would not have survived reading. That's my blather.