Anna K. - Jenny Lee
Meet Anna K. At seventeen, she is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and Newfoundland 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 a 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.
Review
Anna K. is a retelling of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Jenny Lee has given this Russian classic a modern look, I must admit that I have never read the original story.
When I started reading this book I felt like I was watching a drama series like Gossip Girl. Each character has its own story and its own problems and you see each character grow through the story. It was also nice that there was a list of all the names and a brief explanation at the beginning of the book. This would be useful if every book had that, because I'm not very good at remembering names. 😅
And the best part of the book is the drama, all the drama you can think of occurs in this book. Alcohol and drug use, addiction and overdose, cheating, seeing a parent cheating, accidents, death, sex, depression, and much more.
Do you have to read Anna Karenina before you start reading this book?
I don't think so, I haven't read it and thought it was a nice book, maybe you will read the book in a different way if you have already read the original.
On the author's note you can read how Jenny Lee got acquainted with the book Anna Karenina and how she got the idea to write a YA version of it and how she gave it a personal twist.
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