I know I'm in the minority but I didn't love this for most of the book BUT the final third won it over for me. I've seen it described a lot as humourous and funny but missed mention of it actually being a farce. Once it clicked with me at that level (shades of Wodehouse especially the ridiculous situations in Jeeves and Wooster) I started to come round and was won over when we started to get our character's stories - Estella's especially and I found the round up of everything to be really moving.

so 3* on this initial read, and i have a feeling I'll come to it again in future and may rate it higher knowing what I know.