THIS BOOK.
This book made me stay up past midnight last night.
This book made me cry.
This book made me devour pages like a wild woman, needing to know WHAT. HAPPENED. NEXT.
This book gave me all the feels.
I loved Brandes’ version of Anastasia (“Nastya”), with her courageous heart, logical mind, and sheer willpower in the face of impossible horror and obstacles. She was the kind of teen heroine you want to root for, not the kind that makes you roll your eyes or shake your head, muttering, “What are you even DOING?”
I immediately gave this book 5 stars on Goodreads after finishing it, because if a book can give me all of these feelings and keep me up late into the night, it deserves all of the stars.
This one is going to stick with me.
Thank you for the beautiful, heart-breaking, magical, hope-filled, adventurous ride, Nadine Brandes.
If you haven’t read Romanov yet, what are you waiting for?! You can check out the synopsis below, or just go ahead and buy it on Amazon
here.Book Synopsis:
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.
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Rachel L. Schade was born on the first day of summer in a small town in Michigan, only to end up in another small town in Ohio. She attended The Ohio State University to learn how to write obnoxiously long papers, cite people who use big words, and discuss her passion: books. She has a great love for the color blue, sunshine, chocolate, and not folding her laundry. Currently she lives with her husband and surrounds herself with books, coffee, and furry creatures on a regular basis.
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