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I usually love books about Imperial Russia, and the Romanov's. This book though, took me a long time to get through, and it really didn't strike a chord with me. Magical Faberge eggs sound like a fabulous plot idea, but, to me, the whole book just fell flat.

It was very slow, and the characters really didn't grab my interest. Alexei especially just seemed really off for how history portrays him. Nothing rung true for me. I just could not reconcile how the historical characters were portrayed in this book, versus how I have read about the same people portrayed in history books, as well as other fiction books.

The author, in my view, was just trying to fit a magical story into the confines of Romanov history, but the history was changed and adjusted so much that it just didn't work.