This felt very comparable to Pride and Prejudice in a lot of ways?? 

Positives:
- I really did enjoy the affair between Anna & Vronsky and all of their passion and toxicity; especially earlier in their first meetings, the tension was palpable
- I was very surprised at all of the feminism (there were a lot of Amy March in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women adaption-coded feminist monologues that went hard) & critiques of the marriage market, religion, the Russian dynasty, treatment of women/their place in society, high society in general, capitalism, the rich elite, & a lot of advocacy for the working class/the poor that were soooooo good for how old this book is 
- I do think this book was very vivid 

Negatives:
- it was simply too long and rambly & it hit a point where I was really over it during the last third-ish & just wanted it to end. There were a lot of side characters undergoing their own courtly high society drama that I cared about earlier in the novel, but in the end I was very over it.
- even though this was ahead of it’s time I feel in relation to it’s feminism it was still out of pocket very misogynistic at times which was a vibe kill & quite contradictory 
- the racism near the end 🙄