A review by vhindy
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This book really picked up in the second half for me. I was struggling with the foreign character names and the similarities of them at the beginning. By the middle and the end I had a full grasp of the all the characters and how each reacts to one another the writing was great even from reading a translation.

This book had so many moments of incredible tension with intensity that seemed like it could flip on a dime.

I think this is one I’d like to read again with a separate translation to see if what the differences are. 

I only marked this down because at times the dialouge could be a bit lengthy and I had to slow down in order to grasp what was going on. I really feel like this would be solved on a re read so I could better enjoy the beginning parts of the book. And because sometimes

Rodya was so insufferable and seemed to not truly account for his crimes while others seemed to suffer on his behalf. That being said I found myself to still care about him and was happy with his ending.

The main character is complicated and I had a hard time understanding why I should feel any type of sympathy towards him but really liked how he develops along the way.

Really good book and I look forward to a reread in the future