juliaisreadingg 's review for:

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

4.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This was so well written and compelling, it had me on the edge of my seat. I didn't realize until I read the author's note at the beginning that it was a work of fiction, something I kept in mind while reading the book, and now I'm driven to find non-fiction accounts of the Romanovs.