A review by literacyluminary
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean

3.0

This book had so much potential. A young women who works for the Hermitage, the grand museum in Leningrad, must spend the duration of the seige of Leningrad during WWII in the basement of the museum. The imagery of the paintings was beautiful. It would have made a great illustrated book. In later years this woman suffers from Alzheimers's. The back and forth narration was inconsistent. And the ending was so disappointing. As if the author didn't know what to do with her character. Reading this on the heal of City of Thieves, a graphic tale of the siege, probably didn't help. This novel was like marshamallows comparatively.