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An Afrofuturist retelling of Alexandre Dumas's classic 19th century novel The Count of Monte Cristo The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a bold retelling of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. This speculative update pushes the narrative into a future hundreds of years after the polar ice caps have melted and submerged our planet into a new era of technology and culture. In this futuristic reinterpretation, author Ayize Jama-Everett and illustrator Tristan Roach revisit the original inspiration of The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas's own father. A greatly respected general during the French Revolution, Dumas was one of the highest-ranking officers of African descent in a Western army in history. Like the protagonist of his son's story, General Dumas was betrayed and spent years in prison before getting a chance to return to his beloved France. The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a radical and powerful graphic novel update that reclaims the cultural heritage of Dumas's tale and suggests the terrible future that could threaten the human race if we continue to destroy our planet. No library descriptions found. |
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Trigger warnings: Slavery, contagion and colonisation mentioned, death of a person, physical assault and implied injury
Score: Four points out of ten.
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I saw The Last Count of Monte Cristo as a new arrival at a library I went to, and initially, it looked promising. That is until I checked the low ratings and reviews, so I lowered my expectations. Still, I immediately seized the opportunity to get this novel by picking it up. Afterwards, I read The Last Count of Monte Cristo, but it disappointed me when I finished the story.
It starts with the first character I see, Dantes, living in a version of Africa 200 years in the future where uncontested climate change destroyed the world as we know it, even splitting mainland Africa into two. However, the worldbuilding is vague since I don't get why the map is upside down. After a few pages, Dantes searches for the Count of Monte Cristo despite people saying the ship and person no longer exist. Nothing about The Last Count of Monte Cristo was enjoyable to read. There was so much text it felt like I was reading a prose novel with some extra pictures. The art was also unsatisfactory, and the dialogue was the worst. For an Afrofuturistic society, the people sure talk like they live in the 1800s. The ending was dramatic, but it wasn't enough to save The Last Count of Monte Cristo from becoming a dissatisfying reading experience. So underwhelming. (