Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.

Yet again another classic which didn’t work for me. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this classic which it didn’t live up to for me. And I ended up DNF-ing it after having read 73% of it. But hey we don’t have to like all of the books most people finding enjoyable. 

This book was super boring and for me personally it was a punishment to read this book because there was almost nothing I liked about it. Of course there were couple of moments were it was starting to get interesting but then it was killed of on the next page. This happened couple of times and it really pissed me off because I wanted to really like this book and be one of these people who have nothing but good things to say about this book. 

The characters in this book were super annoying and super boring and I really wanted to murder them myself if they were real human beings because I just couldn’t stand them at all.

This book is very it’s repetitive and it basically says the same thing over and over again at least in the English Version I’ve read it in. 

The writing style here was super dry, uninteresting, boring and if I was required to read this book in school I wouldn’t never again pick up a book again because after reading this book I understand why some people hate reading books. 

The premise of this book sounds very interesting but the way it was told and it being mixed with super annoying and super boring character really killed the potential of the plot to this book.  

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov was such a buzzkill that I wanted to beat the shit out of him because for me personally he was the biggest problem of why I didn’t like this book. The best way to describe him is overthinking maniac.

The biggest problem with this book for me is the way it was written because this book and the characters had the potential to be such a big hit for me but the writing here made it impossible for me to like it. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5