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� Title: Romanov
� Author: Nadine Brandes
� Series: Stand-Alone
� Pages: 352
� Genre: Historical Fantasy Retelling
� Rating Out of 5 Stars: 4.5
“Why won’t you die?� ”Because I have a story I was meant to live. And not even you can unwrite it.�
My Thoughts:
Nadine has done it again; seamlessly blending magic and history into one beautiful narrative. While magic does not feature as predominantly throughout the whole story as it did in Fawkes, it is well placed and moved the story along smoothly. It isn’t until the last few chapters we see it take a main role.
Our main cast of characters are well developed without spending too much time on any one personality. One of the major things that I love about Nadine’s writing is how well she builds character relationships. In this story we get to see familial, romantic, friends and the differences between the types of relationships captives can have with their captors. She also has an uncanny ability to make the most of a conflicted mentality. The Romanov family did consider many of those that held them “captive� as friends and vice versa. Her ability to express that through some of the Bolsheviks we meet was very well done.
Like Fawkes, Romanov is well researched and much of the narrative is factual (save obvious creative elements.) The author provides us with a Fact vs Fiction at the end to let us know where her creative additions take place and how she came up with her use for them. The character names were the only thing that slowed me down a bit in the reading.
That aside this was a fantastic book and I could not put it down. I hope she continues to return to these magical historical retellings.
**I received a complimentary copy of this book from Thomas Nelson through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.**
� Author: Nadine Brandes
� Series: Stand-Alone
� Pages: 352
� Genre: Historical Fantasy Retelling
� Rating Out of 5 Stars: 4.5
“Why won’t you die?� ”Because I have a story I was meant to live. And not even you can unwrite it.�
My Thoughts:
Nadine has done it again; seamlessly blending magic and history into one beautiful narrative. While magic does not feature as predominantly throughout the whole story as it did in Fawkes, it is well placed and moved the story along smoothly. It isn’t until the last few chapters we see it take a main role.
Our main cast of characters are well developed without spending too much time on any one personality. One of the major things that I love about Nadine’s writing is how well she builds character relationships. In this story we get to see familial, romantic, friends and the differences between the types of relationships captives can have with their captors. She also has an uncanny ability to make the most of a conflicted mentality. The Romanov family did consider many of those that held them “captive� as friends and vice versa. Her ability to express that through some of the Bolsheviks we meet was very well done.
Like Fawkes, Romanov is well researched and much of the narrative is factual (save obvious creative elements.) The author provides us with a Fact vs Fiction at the end to let us know where her creative additions take place and how she came up with her use for them. The character names were the only thing that slowed me down a bit in the reading.
That aside this was a fantastic book and I could not put it down. I hope she continues to return to these magical historical retellings.
**I received a complimentary copy of this book from Thomas Nelson through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.**
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