I have now officially gained access to the heartbroken Dostoevsky reader club with this novella. I still can’t believe I didn’t read this earlier in life. I have been seeing it all over Instagram and misjudged that it would be one of those overhyped books. But thanks to my cramped reading time and the slump, I picked it up, wasting no time, only to realise that the book was worth the hype.