A review by carolrinke
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

4.0

The summary says it's a romance novel in Russia circa WWII. There are 3 books plus a prequel. This is book 1. Someone recommended it to Bonni. Honestly, I was annoyed by the plot/character choices involving Alexander & Tatiana "sublimating" their love to "protect" Tatiana's sister who was also in love with Alexander. In spite of how much I hated that concept, I still really enjoyed the "read". The author wrote about place, time and circumstance so well that I can put myself into that time and place and live alongside the characters. I have a visceral sensation about what it was like to live on 5th and Soviet in a communal apartment with few rations and no water. The image of slopping buckets of water up the stairway while you fall on the ice that has instantly formed on the steps from all the other sloshed buckets. My description cannot depict fully what the author told perfectly. This is what I love in a book, she helped me to live and experience intimately what I did not know before.