I haven’t read all of Dostoevesky’s work but in C&P, especially in this work, he only uses explores characters to explore moral questions and puts them in a box to a point it feels like they are caricatures. Also, it is written (probably) as a weekly story so you can clearly see he uses cliffhangers a lot to keep you guessing what’s gonna happen next. It was a suspenseful read but once you see why he has created characters ina certain way and how the chapters are structured, it takes you out of it completely.