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I recently posted about volunteering at the local tulip festival and I mentioned wanting to read Alexandre Dumas’ book THE BLACK TULIP.  I did read it, and a few of you were wondering how I liked it, so I thought I’d give it a quick review:

First of all….I was PLEASANTLY SURPRISED that this book was pretty short.  I was kind of expecting it to be like Dumas’ other books (Count of Monte Cristo = 1276 pages; Three Musketeers 784 pages!!!)…but it was only in the 200’s, yeah!

I liked this book!  Nice, fast and good read!  It had somewhat of the same theme as Count of Monte Cristo in that the main character was incarcerated (but innocently, of course).  I love books that have a little history and a little romance and this one did.  There wasn’t any real surprises….I always knew exactly who the good guy was and who the bad guy was and, in the end, the good guy would win. So, no suspense, but that’s ok.  I thought it was interesting that this book DID have the typical lover’s triangle, BUT one of those ‘lovers’ was an object (the black tulip) rather than another person.

I’d recommend this book!  Especially since the time commitment wasn’t huge :o)  I liked it, but didn’t LOVE it. (Those are reserved for a very few).  If you read it, let me know what you think!

Also, according to eHOW.com:

In 1850, Alexandre Dumas published a novel called “The Black Tulip.”  This publication brought attention to the idea of and the search for a truly black tulip.

No tulip, or any other flower or plant, can ever be purely black and lacking any color, according to the technical director of the International Flower Bulb Center in the Netherlands.

Have a great day everyone!  Do or learn something NeW!