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Beschreibung
At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and dogs); she has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend, Alexander W.; and she has always made her Korean-American father proud (even if he can be a little controlling). Meanwhile, Anna's brother, Steven, and his girlfriend, Lolly, are trying to weather an sexting scandal; Lolly's little sister, Kimmie, is struggling to recalibrate to normal life after an injury derails her ice dancing career; and Steven's best friend, Dustin, is madly (and one-sidedly) in love with Kimmie.
As her friends struggle with the pitfalls of ordinary teenage life, Anna always seems to be able to sail gracefully above it all. That is...until the night she meets Alexia "Count" Vronsky at Grand Central. A notorious playboy who has bounced around boarding schools and who lives for his own pleasure, Alexia is everything Anna is not. But he has never been in love until he meets Anna, and maybe she hasn't, either. As Alexia and Anna are pulled irresistibly together, she has to decide how much of her life she is willing to let go for the chance to be with him. And when a shocking revelation threatens to shatter their relationship, she is forced to question if she has ever known herself at all.
Dazzlingly opulent and emotionally riveting, Jenny Lee's Anna K: A Love Story is a brilliant reimagining of Leo Tolstoy's timeless love story, Anna Karenina-but above all, it is a novel about the dizzying, glorious, heart-stopping experience of first love and first heartbreak.
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dnf after 150 pages I just couldn't find the motivation to read this book. I hoped that I'd be like a mixture of Gossip Girl and Crazy Rich Asians but unfortunately, this book consists of very flat characters. The slang these characters used was incredibly cringey. Even though I've never read [b: Anna Karenina|15823480|Anna Karenina|Leo Tolstoy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546091617l/15823480._SX50_.jpg|2507928], this book feels like a huge parody of it. I'm so disappointed!
That ending... killed me. -- I no more have the capacity of pointing out things I loved and things I disliked. But. I can tell you. I enjoyed this book. It was fun, it was messy, it was sad… it made me cry, it also made me smile, it kept me hooked on to reading and all that jazz. Which is all means that it is a good book and you must GIVE IT A TRY. And if you don’t know what this book is about? This is a modern retelling of Leo Tolstoy's amazing classic book Anna Karenina. This one is set nowadays in New York and we have a half Korean protagonist. And I would just leave at that.
Anna K is a modern retelling of the classic „Anna Karenina“, but instead of Moskau it is set in the upper class of Manhatten. This book has a Gossip Girl Vibe, which i adored, but given the material it is based on it is defenitly not as light and funny. I touches a lot of dark topics like drug abuse, depression and death. Besides that, this is a entertaining story with a lot of great characters that i really enjoyed reading.
Beschreibung
At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and dogs); she has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend, Alexander W.; and she has always made her Korean-American father proud (even if he can be a little controlling). Meanwhile, Anna's brother, Steven, and his girlfriend, Lolly, are trying to weather an sexting scandal; Lolly's little sister, Kimmie, is struggling to recalibrate to normal life after an injury derails her ice dancing career; and Steven's best friend, Dustin, is madly (and one-sidedly) in love with Kimmie.
As her friends struggle with the pitfalls of ordinary teenage life, Anna always seems to be able to sail gracefully above it all. That is...until the night she meets Alexia "Count" Vronsky at Grand Central. A notorious playboy who has bounced around boarding schools and who lives for his own pleasure, Alexia is everything Anna is not. But he has never been in love until he meets Anna, and maybe she hasn't, either. As Alexia and Anna are pulled irresistibly together, she has to decide how much of her life she is willing to let go for the chance to be with him. And when a shocking revelation threatens to shatter their relationship, she is forced to question if she has ever known herself at all.
Dazzlingly opulent and emotionally riveting, Jenny Lee's Anna K: A Love Story is a brilliant reimagining of Leo Tolstoy's timeless love story, Anna Karenina-but above all, it is a novel about the dizzying, glorious, heart-stopping experience of first love and first heartbreak.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
dnf after 150 pages I just couldn't find the motivation to read this book. I hoped that I'd be like a mixture of Gossip Girl and Crazy Rich Asians but unfortunately, this book consists of very flat characters. The slang these characters used was incredibly cringey. Even though I've never read [b: Anna Karenina|15823480|Anna Karenina|Leo Tolstoy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546091617l/15823480._SX50_.jpg|2507928], this book feels like a huge parody of it. I'm so disappointed!
That ending... killed me. -- I no more have the capacity of pointing out things I loved and things I disliked. But. I can tell you. I enjoyed this book. It was fun, it was messy, it was sad… it made me cry, it also made me smile, it kept me hooked on to reading and all that jazz. Which is all means that it is a good book and you must GIVE IT A TRY. And if you don’t know what this book is about? This is a modern retelling of Leo Tolstoy's amazing classic book Anna Karenina. This one is set nowadays in New York and we have a half Korean protagonist. And I would just leave at that.
Anna K is a modern retelling of the classic „Anna Karenina“, but instead of Moskau it is set in the upper class of Manhatten. This book has a Gossip Girl Vibe, which i adored, but given the material it is based on it is defenitly not as light and funny. I touches a lot of dark topics like drug abuse, depression and death. Besides that, this is a entertaining story with a lot of great characters that i really enjoyed reading.