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vtmichelle 's review for:
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
by Robert Alexander
*2.75
The first part read as a history book (granted, it was very well researched) with a fictional storyline put in, and perhaps it would have been more interesting had I not known anything about the Romanovs, but I had to read several books on them for my high school end paper thingy, so nothing was, history wise, new. The impact of the fictional storyline only became apparent at the very end, which is also where I actually started to enjoy the novel, and stopped skimming. However, the story on the whole fell quite flat for me, especially the characters. The Romanovs were like stereotypes and didn't have real personalities one could relate to. This probably also added to my idea of the novel as a non-fiction history book (and again, I already knew a lot about them, and it was like I was literally reading one of those books I read in high school).
The first part read as a history book (granted, it was very well researched) with a fictional storyline put in, and perhaps it would have been more interesting had I not known anything about the Romanovs, but I had to read several books on them for my high school end paper thingy, so nothing was, history wise, new. The impact of the fictional storyline only became apparent at the very end, which is also where I actually started to enjoy the novel, and stopped skimming. However, the story on the whole fell quite flat for me, especially the characters. The Romanovs were like stereotypes and didn't have real personalities one could relate to. This probably also added to my idea of the novel as a non-fiction history book (and again, I already knew a lot about them, and it was like I was literally reading one of those books I read in high school).