3.87 avg rating — 254,850 ratings

"Hands down my favorite rad this year! Rarely does a novel force its way into my personal pantheon like this one did!"

4.21 avg rating — 216,834 ratings

"Dostoevsky always delivers, and while this one is very different from Crime and Punishment or Brothers Karamazov, it's still magnificent, and the ending is haunting beyond belief!"

3.91 avg rating — 1,554 ratings

"I didn't know we had genre fiction this good in Russia (home of my favorite classics!), but dang was this good! Really hoping we get more from the Dyachenkos before too long!"

4.06 avg rating — 258,331 ratings

"Not one of Shakespeare's masterpieces, in the same way that Hamlet or Twelfth Night is a masterpiece, but this one is a great deal of fun!"

4.76 avg rating — 485,266 ratings

"Honestly not a great book, in the traditional sense, but a great deal of fun."