I've never read Anna Karenina and to be honest it's never crossed my mind to read it so it was definitely not part of my decision making process to try and get my hands on an ARC copy. What did whet my appetite though, are the references to "Gossip Girl meets Crazy Rich Asians". At 33, I'm an unashamed Gossip Girl fan, living my boring life vicariously through the lives of far more exciting rich kids who are half my age.
Whatever floats your boat, right?
Anyway, this isn't a review for Gossip Girl so I could probably do with telling you what I thought of this book about over-priviliged teenagers living in New York's Upper East side.
So first off, this for some reason was a slow read for me. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I didn't find myself desperate to get back to it.
But the storyline made me feel warm. I connected to the characters, of which there were many. In the first pages there's a list of all the characters and how they're connected. On reading this I was pretty overwhelmed thinking I'd be confused by them all but everything was explained and I quickly learned who all the characters were.
I can't say the narrative was particularly descriptive in terms of scene setting, but the character's had a surprising amount of depth given their age which helped to connect to them, even as an adult.
Thanks to Readers First for this free proof in exchange this review.
Whatever floats your boat, right?
Anyway, this isn't a review for Gossip Girl so I could probably do with telling you what I thought of this book about over-priviliged teenagers living in New York's Upper East side.
So first off, this for some reason was a slow read for me. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I didn't find myself desperate to get back to it.
But the storyline made me feel warm. I connected to the characters, of which there were many. In the first pages there's a list of all the characters and how they're connected. On reading this I was pretty overwhelmed thinking I'd be confused by them all but everything was explained and I quickly learned who all the characters were.
I can't say the narrative was particularly descriptive in terms of scene setting, but the character's had a surprising amount of depth given their age which helped to connect to them, even as an adult.
Thanks to Readers First for this free proof in exchange this review.