A review by silverbirch
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.75

The central narrative was thought-provoking, philosophical and engaging - the protagonist explores the concept of guilt as just that: a concept. Mines the depths of justified crime. However, there was too much fluff around this narrative. There was so many characters to keep track of, and it was my first Russian novel, so having the three different names per character made it very hard to identify how many different characters there were. I also felt the epilogue was entirely superfluous - the network of characters, and the excessive spoon-feeding of the plot made the style distinctly Dickensian, and that is something I do not enjoy.