Young Llama Thoughts
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Adventurous
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Christian Friendly
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Easy Reading
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Humerous
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Youth Appropriate
Overall
Review
This book is the most dramatic retelling of Anastasia EVER!!!! The amount of plot twists are insane and I couldn’t believe the ending!!!!!
This book is about Anastasia, a Romanov exiled and imprisoned in a house with her family. Nastya is trusted with her families secret, a Russian doll full of forbidden spells that might just save her family. But with no one to trust, Nastya isn’t certain how to use the spells and where to learn more magic. However, she has bigger problems, when one of the guards and her grow close, she thinks she found an ally… until he is the one to pull the trigger at her firing squad…
This book is a stunning masterpiece of chaos!!! I thought it was a book about prison, but it quickly turned into an adventure! Every chapter is a mystery to uncover and I loved it sooooo much! The author did a great job keeping the facts straight while adding a dash of magic and romance in the mix! Young ladies 15 and up would love this tale.
However, there is violence and dark topics in the book. Lots of death, blood and war. Mention of bodies. Mention of people being shot till you can’t recognize them as well as stabbed. Mention of being cut, being killed and such. And there is also magic in the book. Not voo-doo, but very wizard like. Spell masters can save lives by pulling the spirit from the body seconds before they die, so that is in the book. But as far as I can tell, it isn’t dark magic. They have spell ink, which they use to write spells. Not creepy.
Overall, I LOVED IT!!!! This book was a fabulous read for me and one I totally suggest! If you like magical twists on history, this would be a great read for you. -The Young Llama Reader.
Pros
- A magical retelling of Anastasia!
- Great for ladies 15 and up!!!
Cons
- Lots of violence and death.
My name is Anastasia. 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 saving herself and her family are either to release the spell and deal with the consequences, or to enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn’t act like the average Bolshevik.
Nastya has only dabbled in magic, but it doesn’t frighten her half as much as her growing attraction to 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.
