A review by immabehazzie
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

3.0

Honestly, I have been putting off reading this book. It’s been awhile since I’ve read a book so big and I regret to admit that I didn’t like the 2012 movie. I couldn’t help reading it, though because there is something about Imperial Russia that intrigues me. The book though - I liked it. Not enjoyed it like how I enjoy other books. The book made me think. Paralleling three marriages. No matter what you think of the characters, they’re all written in such a human way that it’s hard to actually hate them. One last thing - I know a lot of people think of this story of a romance story but I disagree. I do think that it’s a story about love, but about human love and human nature and not necessarily romantic love. Only two things stop me from rating it higher the first is all of the characters. It was almost impossible to keep up with who was who and how they were related. And the second - all the Russian politics. It’s very different from American politics and it takes places in the 1800s. I did like the book and if it wasn’t so long, I’d probably read it again.