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A review by coffiishot
Anna Karenina by Gemma Barder
3.0
I am not intending to read the actual work by Leo Tolstoy. This is why I decided to read this abridged novel.
Over all, I enjoyed this adaptation as a quick easy read.
Thanks to Netgalley and Sweet Cherry Publishing for the copy.
Anna Karenina is young and beautiful. She is married to Alexis Karenina who is a lot older than her. She has always felt unhappy and miserable in her marriage, until the reason to assure that feeling was standing before her in the train station named Count Vronsky. A handsome young officer who also felt the same "lust at first sight" if you may.. Forgetting that she is married with a child, Anna decides to fall in love with the Count and meet him secretly; thinking that no one knows. But everybody knows...
Alexis gives her two choices, either she cut ties with Count Vronsky, or she is to never see her son ever again.
The story makes you think about things like:
What is wrong with settling in?
What is wrong with actually going through a divorce despite what society thinks of you?
Why is it not ok to have a simple life?
Do we really have to fulfill all of our desires?
and much more....
it feels weird to have this story targeted for younger generation. I mean topics like (Adultery, divorce, lust, cheating..... and much more) In my opinion aren't suitable to children or the younger generations.
Over all, I enjoyed this adaptation as a quick easy read.
Thanks to Netgalley and Sweet Cherry Publishing for the copy.
Anna Karenina is young and beautiful. She is married to Alexis Karenina who is a lot older than her. She has always felt unhappy and miserable in her marriage, until the reason to assure that feeling was standing before her in the train station named Count Vronsky. A handsome young officer who also felt the same "lust at first sight" if you may.. Forgetting that she is married with a child, Anna decides to fall in love with the Count and meet him secretly; thinking that no one knows. But everybody knows...
Alexis gives her two choices, either she cut ties with Count Vronsky, or she is to never see her son ever again.
The story makes you think about things like:
What is wrong with settling in?
What is wrong with actually going through a divorce despite what society thinks of you?
Why is it not ok to have a simple life?
Do we really have to fulfill all of our desires?
and much more....
it feels weird to have this story targeted for younger generation. I mean topics like (Adultery, divorce, lust, cheating..... and much more) In my opinion aren't suitable to children or the younger generations.