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Anastasia

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4.05 AVERAGE

mann_sarah's review

4.75
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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bibliophilebrynn's review

4.0
adventurous emotional funny sad
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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its_lydia's review

4.5
adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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mesugarbee's review

4.0
adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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kalynnalexander's review

4.0
adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5✨
adventurous dark emotional slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The longing eee

going between 3 and 4 stars so rating 3.5 rounded up to 4 because i liked it. This was really good and i loved the mixing of history and fantasy and the changing of history. It was way too long but i also liked how the story followed her from childhood to present especially since you see how indoctrinated people become by their family. I also liked the history aspect of it and how the Romanov family was never composed of actually great rulers so it was interesting. The slow burn also had me in an absolute chokehold and u moved the magic of the book. it was also fun seeing an adult version of a movie you loved so much growing up and a story you were taught in class.
however i knock off the points because i hated the way it ended and it just kind of annoyed me. but it also made me happy and it’s fantasy so i guess nothing is impossible. but i was like what was the point for those 200 pages in the middle then if it was gonna—nvm