I think this is going to be a very polarising read for the reading community. A book about rich kids in New York with a lot of money and a worryingly frequent cocaine habit, Anna K retells the Russian story of Anna Karenina, but I don't think it does it justice.
There were a few things that put me off this book:
1. The glamorisation of drug abuse. Throughout the first 150, there are at least four instances of drug abuse, drug abuse at glamourous parties with no consequences for the rich kids using them.
2. The font was extremely small and the chapters were seperated by line spaces as opposed to new pages. This made the book feel like a long slog.
3. The first 150 pages did not go any further than an exploration into the lives of priviledged new york teenagers. I knew that they would be okay by the end of the book, because they had the money to fix most of their problems.
There were a few things that put me off this book:
1. The glamorisation of drug abuse. Throughout the first 150, there are at least four instances of drug abuse, drug abuse at glamourous parties with no consequences for the rich kids using them.
2. The font was extremely small and the chapters were seperated by line spaces as opposed to new pages. This made the book feel like a long slog.
3. The first 150 pages did not go any further than an exploration into the lives of priviledged new york teenagers. I knew that they would be okay by the end of the book, because they had the money to fix most of their problems.