4.16 AVERAGE

reflective
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark mysterious
challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark reflective slow-paced

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dark reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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“ if you you keep talking big nonsense you will get to sense “ “ if you’re going to give me big nonsense better make it your own big nonsense, and i’ll kiss you for it. talk nonsense in your own way. that’s almost better than talking sense in somebody else’s” my very beloved razumikhin was with no doubt my favorite character the way he stuck for raskolnikov and his family and the way he went and searched for those good stuff raskolnikov did. raskolnikov was very lucky to have him as a bestfriend even though he tells himself he doesn’t see him that way.

i loved raskolnikov i hated raskolnikov i related to raskolnikov. this book morally challenged me and left me staring at a blank wall multiple times, questioning.
i think everyone should read this at some point of their lives.
reflective tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark reflective tense

The first book made me unwell for several days. This effect was lost post-murder to subplots, which I was grateful for.
I don’t understand why Sonya loved Rodion, except maybe that he was the only option.
The moral was the same as that of the Brothers Karamazov, with Rodya as Ivan. However, I loved the faster pace of this one and the depth of Rodya’s personality. I wish I had more to say.

When I first began reading this book, I did not like it. It was so... dark. This novel is really about a man who is from the Underground. He is lost within his own self. Reading it was frustrating and painful and depressing.

But then it changed. And hope reared it's ugly head. And before I know what happened, I was on the edge of my seat. The book is amazing.

When i finally laid it down, I got down on my knees, and literally wept over the darkness of my soul and the grace it took to deliver me. Hope barely rears her head... but what hope.