“ANNA K.” by Jenny Lee

Jenny Lee had a brilliant idea to use Anna Karenina plot and to adapt it for Millenials into Anna K.

And she did a WONDERFUL job.

I devoured the novel, and I loved that Anna K., a seventeen-year-old, was an American-Korean girl who held her own.
I’m a girl, therefore a root for the heroine. 🙂 

“When Anna felt someone come up behind her and start dancing a little too close she let it go on for a few seconds before she turned and confirmed what she already knew. It was Alexia. A smile escaped before she could stop it and without a word Vronsky put his hand on her lower back and pulled her close. She let him.

She lost track of how many songs they danced to together, as each song kept bleeding into the next.
They still hadn’t spoken to each other, but really there were no words that could express what was going on between them. They were both sweating, but neither noticed or cared. 
At times, both of Vronsky’s hands were on her back, and at times she ran her fingers through his golden hair. Sometimes he spun her around, spooning her and putting his face in the back of her neck, wrapping his arms around her waist. They moved together to the beat of the music. 
Either of them could only stand this for so long before one would pull back slightly, but it never lasted. Any amount of distance felt too far, and soon they were pressed up against one another staring into each other’s eyes. 
Anna was desperate to kiss him, to have him kiss her, but she knew that was the line she couldn’t cross. So instead she pressed her face into the side of his neck and breathed in his scent.

If someone saw them dancing together, they would just see two beautiful teenagers having a good time on the dance floor. “

Kindle, 2020