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Carolly Erickson
The Tsarina's Daughter
I've just called uncle at 50 pages. I don't mind suspending belief at times - since this was promoted as "historical entertainment" (WTF is that???) - but the writing was just so flat and mediocre that I wasn't pulled in to the story or characters at all. When Tatiana befriended the kitchen worker's child and dressed as a peasant and went out somewhere with baskets of left over food to feed god knows who I bailed.
The ending is pretty standard too. I mean you knew where it was going. Since I am so hungry for anything with Russia in it I read it anyway.
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- sweetpotatoboy
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[quote=""Laura""]Recently, I read The Bronze Horseman and I liked it even if the end was very predicable. Doctor Zhivago is another great Russian book.[/quote]
I'm pretty sure I read AK and DZ when I was much younger. The Bronze Horseman has been on my mental TBR pile. Just haven't gotten around to it. Other than that the only one in Russia I've read is The Snow Mountain and that was a bit slow.
I'm pretty sure I read AK and DZ when I was much younger. The Bronze Horseman has been on my mental TBR pile. Just haven't gotten around to it. Other than that the only one in Russia I've read is The Snow Mountain and that was a bit slow.