Anastasia

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This book tells a story from girl to adulthood, Ms Lark has told the story in such a good way that you can almost imagine this being the story. I enjoyed seeing facts I was familiar with included in the story along with the spin the author put on certain aspects to incorporate the fantastical and supply explanations for some things we will never truly know. This is a chunky 600+ page book and I flew through it like it was nothing, it held me captive for hours. I’ve seen fanfiction AU’s written with more care about fictional characters than Lark does with real historical figures.

The blurb for this one: “This book is not a retelling of any other Anastasia story, it is set in 1919 in a world similar to ours, but with magic. That NEVER happens lol, I just wanted Damien and Anastasia to have everything because they deserve the absolute world. With how long this book is you'd think I'd know everything there's to know about him but even having his POVes I still feel like I don't know him. I didn’t realise to begin with that it’s loosely based on historical events but with a HEA ending and of course a touch of magic.The Cossack boy who was forced away from his family by the Tsar, Anastasia's father, only to find a ( supposedly) great friend on Anastasia. Everything was very clearly described through the lens of a western author with their own idealogies in mind, which is to be expected, since this is aimed at the same audience.

The author was supposed to place the product of her own imagination (fantasy elements and her take on historical figures) in the context of Russian history instead of giving long and tedious lectures on the previous Russian emperors and emperesses as well as historical events that bear no relation to the actual narrative. drowning in name after name of characters that i assume won't be important later on down the road because this is a romance. There are many driving factors in this book that those familiar with the story of the real Anastasia will recognize. Anastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift.Maybe an open ending would've worked, with an insinuation of better times to come in the distant future. Over 600+ pages of coming-of-age fantasy should NOT be mired down with that much detail over warring groups, troop movements, and the daily minutia of living in a palace. She loved trading jokes (for which she often got punished), playing pranks and had an acting talent. I spent the better part of the book trying to figure him out, is he as selfless as he claims to be or a wolf in sheep's clothing? Characters - Starting off with the characters, we follow Anastasia throughout her life, from 11yo to her early twenties I think, it wasn't mentioned how old exactly was she when the book ended and with that plot twist at end I'm not sure.