Title: Romanov

Author: Nadine Brandes

Page count: 352

Published: May 7^th, 2019

Publisher:  Thomas Nelson

Genre: Historical Fiction / Teen, YA

Received: From Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

Rating:   4/5

Summary:

From the author of Fawkes comes a magical take on the story of Anastasia Romanov.

The history books say I died.

They don’t know the half of it.

Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them . . . and he’s hunted Romanov before.

Nastya’s only chances of survival are to either release the spell, and deal with the consequences, or enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn’t act like the average Bolshevik. Nastya’s never dabbled in magic before, but it doesn’t frighten her as much as her growing attraction for Zash. She likes him. She thinks he might even like her . . .

That is, until she’s on one side of a firing squad . . . and he’s on the other. 

My Thoughts:

This is the second book by Nadine that I have read, the first one was Fawkes and I really enjoyed that one. you can check out my review for that one here.

Before I start my review I don’t want to give away to much since this book isn’t going to be out until next year, if you haven’t been following my reviews or if this is the first one of mine that you have stumbled on, I just wanted to say that I don’t normally read historical books because I usually find them to be a snooze fest but if there are more like this one out there then I would defiantly read them.

I know that this being a re telling not many people will read this because there not a fan of them but this one is one is one to look out for when it comes out in a few months. Here is a little back story of the book if you don’t already know.  The infamous Romanov family. As we all know, it was believed for a time that Anastasia, fourth daughter of Russian Tsar Nikolai Romanov, and her younger brother Alexei had survived the rebellious revolution to overthrow the family’s reign. In the years following the Romanovs’ murders, speculation arose as to whether Anastasia and her brother might have survived the execution.

I found this book to be truly compelling, I didn’t want to stop reading until the book was finished, but then when I was done reading it, I wanted more. I didn’t want it to end. I loved the YA twist that was added into the book.

Have you watched the Anastasia movie? Even if you have this is different. Its much darker with violence in it, so I wouldn’t compare this to the movie, but it at least gives you an idea of what you want is in store when you read it.