A review by vercingoontorix
The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

No too sure how to rate this one. It's a collection of short stories by Pushkin, and although The Queen of Spades is a great story, its outshone by some of the others most notably

the tale of Dubrovsky

. However the stories are all gripping and paint a gorgeous, if violent and tumultuous, picture of rural Imperial Russia.