1.17k reviews for:

Anastasia

Sophie Lark

4.05 AVERAGE

flea_reads's review against another edition

5.0

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I loved everything about this magical retelling of Anastasia. Sophie Lark took us on a roller coaster of a journey with this story and I really liked that it started from when Anastasia was a child. We got to see true character growth, romance development, family drama, political tension, and of course the fantasy and magic.

Anastasia and Damien’s connection was magnetic. It was the undercurrent of this story but not the main plot, which I was happy about because there was so much more to love. Watching Anastasia mature from a young girl to a woman, in the natural order of life and learning to control her powers was one of my personal favorite aspects of the book. Rasputin was a fantastic villain. No spoilers so I will leave it at that but I could discuss in detail if anyone has read it!

Also, I could never leave out one of my favorites - the gyrfalcon- Artemis. I LOVE animal “sidekicks”. Artemis is intelligent and fierce and even though she was not a prominent piece of the story, she was essential to it.

Overall, this story was written beautifully and I was enraptured throughout this very LONG book. Be warned, it is a long book but I found it to be fast paced and easy to read because of the fantastic prose and the unexpected events that always drew me back in.

cmd2010's review against another edition

4.0

emotional 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

wordsareweapons's review

DID NOT FINISH

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I'll get back around to this when im less distracted. 

airwreckaam's review

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

shelly23's review

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful fast-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

mia_marceleno's review

4.5

adventurous emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was very nostalgic for me! I think I liked it so much purely from that standpoint, I could see why other people wouldn’t like it if they didn’t already have a connection. 

erin_xx's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

gnomepatronus's review against another edition

4.0

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4 star overall
4 star narration 
2 peppers

The reimagining of Anastasia was done extremely well. The factual information about the Romanovs and the fantasy were woven so well together that when a fantasy element was brough it, it did not pull you from the storyline. This is not the typical fantasy, or historical fiction, or romance, but all merged into all the bright, dark, and emotional moments that come Ansatasia’s way. 
 I did go into the book thinking there would be more spice due to being written by Sophie Lark.

kkirbyreads's review

2.0

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

aharv22's review

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced