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jweir21's review
adventurous
emotional
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
ronimac74's review against another edition
5.0
What an amazing sequel to the first. We find out just how strong Tatiana's and Alexander's love truly is.Their love is put to the test and is it enough to conquer new obstacles that stand in their way? Another great book about strength, passion, survival and most of all love.
nannasa16's review against another edition
5.0
No, I'm not going to write "I need the sixth star" because in reality I need the SEVENTH star.
I'm heartbroken. I'm devasted. I'm in love. After the third book you will find be smashed in thousands of little pieces of me. I can't believe it. I'm becoming so sentimental that it's almost disgusting. I don't know if I will ever be able to write a review. How can you review something like this? I would just write "go, read it and destroy your heart".
p.s. Tania is the most badass character ever, Alexander can be the major of the Red Army but Tania always saves his ass. She's abso-fucking-lutely amazing.
I'm heartbroken. I'm devasted. I'm in love. After the third book you will find be smashed in thousands of little pieces of me. I can't believe it. I'm becoming so sentimental that it's almost disgusting. I don't know if I will ever be able to write a review. How can you review something like this? I would just write "go, read it and destroy your heart".
p.s. Tania is the most badass character ever, Alexander can be the major of the Red Army but Tania always saves his ass. She's abso-fucking-lutely amazing.
sandyfrancesca's review against another edition
5.0
AH ! I cannot believe this book. There no other story that compares, I have no words so all i will say for now is ratings be broken! What a read!
Book series of 2012
Book series of 2012
miss_murphy's review against another edition
5.0
RELECTURA
Estoy: muy mal
Son los pequeños detalles en los que no te habías fijado la primera vez los que te aniquilan
*****
Estoy: mal
Si el libro anterior era el libro de Tatiana, este es el de Alexander. Tanto es así, que ella pasa casi a un papel secundario. Aquí es donde vemos a Alexander brillar en todo su esplendor. Aunque el libro anterior ya nos permitió hacernos un poco una idea sobre su pasado, aquí lo vemos con todo lujo de detalles: su relación con sus padres y con los ideales que estos sostenían, su adolescencia y todas las penurias que tuvo que vivir en el injusto y paranoico sistema soviético. Y Tatiana, claro. No tenía yo ganas ni na de leer la escena del autobús y el helado desde la perspectiva de Alexander. Algo que la autora sabe hacer súper bien (además de documentarse, algo en lo que vuelve a arrasar en este libro btw) es crear personajes complejos y de muchas facetas. A veces los amas, a veces los odias y a veces te desquician sus decisiones, aunque las comprendas. Alexander es un gran ejemplo. No es perfecto, ni pretende serlo. Sí, no siempre tiene las mejores intenciones y comete muchos errores que nosotros como lectores tenemos que aceptar aunque nos duelan, pero al final siempre vamos a desear que esquive la siguiente bala, que se salve en la siguiente refriega o que escape del próximo encarcelamiento. Si eso no es una construcción magistral de personaje, que baje Dios y lo vea.
A diferencia del libro anterior, este libro está diseñado para que duelan todas y cada una de las páginas. Ya sean las partes de Tania en Nueva York, cuando ves cómo pasa por todas las etapas del duelo, las de Alexander y todo lo que tiene que pasar el pobre hombre (que ni un segundo de paz tiene en toda la novela) a los flashbacks de Lazarevo que ya directamente te aniquilan como una banda sonora de Ennio Morricone.
Si lees este libro, debes ser consciente de que, al igual que Shura, no vas a tener ni un momento de paz.
Estoy: muy mal
Son los pequeños detalles en los que no te habías fijado la primera vez los que te aniquilan
*****
Estoy: mal
Si el libro anterior era el libro de Tatiana, este es el de Alexander. Tanto es así, que ella pasa casi a un papel secundario. Aquí es donde vemos a Alexander brillar en todo su esplendor. Aunque el libro anterior ya nos permitió hacernos un poco una idea sobre su pasado, aquí lo vemos con todo lujo de detalles: su relación con sus padres y con los ideales que estos sostenían, su adolescencia y todas las penurias que tuvo que vivir en el injusto y paranoico sistema soviético. Y Tatiana, claro. No tenía yo ganas ni na de leer la escena del autobús y el helado desde la perspectiva de Alexander. Algo que la autora sabe hacer súper bien (además de documentarse, algo en lo que vuelve a arrasar en este libro btw) es crear personajes complejos y de muchas facetas. A veces los amas, a veces los odias y a veces te desquician sus decisiones, aunque las comprendas. Alexander es un gran ejemplo. No es perfecto, ni pretende serlo. Sí, no siempre tiene las mejores intenciones y comete muchos errores que nosotros como lectores tenemos que aceptar aunque nos duelan, pero al final siempre vamos a desear que esquive la siguiente bala, que se salve en la siguiente refriega o que escape del próximo encarcelamiento. Si eso no es una construcción magistral de personaje, que baje Dios y lo vea.
A diferencia del libro anterior, este libro está diseñado para que duelan todas y cada una de las páginas. Ya sean las partes de Tania en Nueva York, cuando ves cómo pasa por todas las etapas del duelo, las de Alexander y todo lo que tiene que pasar el pobre hombre (que ni un segundo de paz tiene en toda la novela) a los flashbacks de Lazarevo que ya directamente te aniquilan como una banda sonora de Ennio Morricone.
Si lees este libro, debes ser consciente de que, al igual que Shura, no vas a tener ni un momento de paz.
rylee_vaughan's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
kfw_1996's review against another edition
3.0
If you read "The Bronze Horseman" the last 1/4 of the book will be for you. Otherwise, it's a lot of pretty prose with very little happening (or a rehash from the first book). Ummm, I'm no prude, but a lot of sex scenes not included in the first book was elaborated in the second book, like using bread crumbs or oatmeal for filler in meatloaf.
gilgulita's review against another edition
2.0
Why am I doing this to myself?, was a thought I had during every single page of this book. Even after being so annoyed with the first one, I decided to read this one, maybe because I'm a masochist, or maybe because I just really, really, REALLY don't like leaving book series I started unfinished. In any case I just might be a bit stupid. Hmmmm.
Why am I so annoyed?
Well, I don't know where to start and I definitely won't be able to remember ALL the reasons, so I'm going to focus on the most important one: Tatiana and Alexander are two idiots of galactic proportions.
I do not understand their attraction to eachother, and I do not understand how I am so done.
Oh... but that only was the last sixth of the book. The first, and much larger part, was spent recounting basically everything we read in the first book, which was just a way to make it longer, since we really didn't learn anything new. Also to read: endless passages of military mumbo-jumbo, the same patterns as in the first book (everyone is a flawed and evil human being except for our dear little Alexander and Tatiana), moping, oh the moping, oh the MOPING... and the reminiscing of past sex scenes. Yay.
If I have any self respect I will not read the next one. But, let's be honest, I probably will.
Why am I so annoyed?
Well, I don't know where to start and I definitely won't be able to remember ALL the reasons, so I'm going to focus on the most important one: Tatiana and Alexander are two idiots of galactic proportions.
I do not understand their attraction to eachother, and I do not understand how
Spoiler
a bossy, more or less emancipated woman, who leaves her little son behind in America to follow a tiny hunch that her husband might still be alive, and basically searches through the entirity of Europe, (not once thinking of HER SON??) only to turn into a blubbering, incompetent, submitting wife infront of her husband. Who treats her like she can't even tie her shoes.Oh... but that only was the last sixth of the book. The first, and much larger part, was spent recounting basically everything we read in the first book, which was just a way to make it longer, since we really didn't learn anything new. Also to read: endless passages of military mumbo-jumbo, the same patterns as in the first book (everyone is a flawed and evil human being except for our dear little Alexander and Tatiana), moping, oh the moping, oh the MOPING... and the reminiscing of past sex scenes. Yay.
If I have any self respect I will not read the next one. But, let's be honest, I probably will.