zeldazonks 's review for:

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4.0

I first read this in probably 2012 when I was around 18/19 and I considered it one of my fave novels and would have given it 5 stars. Rereading it at 31 I'm slightly mystified at what went over my head this time that I apparently didn't even realise went over my head back then. The character driven story is great and it surprises me how easy this is to read compared to a lot of classics, the writing style feels very fresh and modern, but a lot of the religious stuff, the agriculture stuff and general Russian history context just went straight in one eye and out the other. Need to give myself a mini history lesson and reread it in another 10 years I guess.