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irishfolkofcork 's review for:
I think if I were to give this a true rating, it would be between a three and four star. While on one hand, I am an enthusiast of the tsar and his family, on the other hand, there were some issues with the presentation and content of this book. For one, the book claims by its title to be about the Romanov daughters. However, much of the book is more about the family with snippets focused on the daughters here and there. I will say, as an enthusiast, I can understand this. So much of these young women's lives was interconnected with their family life, if not most of their lives. They were highly isolated and at times for good reason. I also felt at times like this was less of a book and more of a research dissertation. There were times when as a reader you were just inundated with quotes and outside opinions that the ratio between the author's words and the opinions was skewed towards the quotations. I really feel that Rappaport needed to find a balance with this in the text and stick with it. To have too many quotations really seemed to draw away from the story at times instead of adding to it. With all this in mind, I have to say I found it a very intriguing read. I learned things, which as an enthusiast, I like to be able to say. I also did like that at times we got such a fantastic feel of the Romanovs and their personalities. Rappaport used situational language very well to convey that. I would however only recommend this to someone who is interested in Russian history, especially this family, like myself. I think because of how heavily research based this book is as opposed to being more literary, it may turn away the average historical non-fiction reader.