I really wanted to love this book. It is the first Dickens I've read and it has tons of 5 star reviews. I love classics, but this one just didn't impress me as much as it has most everyone else. I started listening to this as an audiobook and 2 hours into it I had to stop and restart it, because I thought that I surely had missed something. No, that is just how slow the beginning of this story is. It picks up from there, but this was the hardest book to get into . I loved the characters and the way you sympathize for both sides, although I'm worried a few characters are a bit forgettable. All the reveals near the end of the book made me appreciate this book as a whole. Ultimately, I liked the book and was glad I stuck through the beginning.