A review by drunkl0tus
Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky

5.0

GIRL I started this book yesterday and I'm already done with it. I cried and I laughed and I lived through Netochkas emotions.

This book is realistic. It shows how a case of how a child moulds to the world around them, innocently and naively, without understanding the impact of actions they consider as right, until they grow older (as she narrates her life). For example, she sacrificed her and her mothers relationship (although pitiful) for a tiny bit of her fathers (fake) validation. Perhaps she blames her mothers weakness in fighting for herself and her daughter to leave her drunk delirious weak man of a husband for a better life.

This story is bitter, melancholy, disappointing, heart breaking.

It was tragic. I cried. It was well told.

I loved it.