Apart from the simpleton and annoyingly angelic and naive Esther (who unfortunately was in a big role) the character gallery was extremely enjoyable. If not the best of Dickens's books then at least very close second. The descriptions were stunning, you could feel the soot and dirty fog along with the gazes of suspicious Tom-All-Aloners. The reader will witness morbid, sad and happy events when the people connected to the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case get tangled up in it and dragged down to the depths of despair or heights of happiness.