Book Review #46
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
by Robert Alexander
This is a highly readable and suspenseful story with an undercurrent of dread running throughout, as we await the killing of the Romanovs. In fact as the time of their execution approached, I put down the book several times as if to ward off their imminent deaths, which, when they finally arrived, were described in surprisingly coarse language, as if seen through the eyes of their killers. The brutality of their murders was all the more disturbing due of the empathy shown towards the royal family throughout by the author and the kitchen boy who narrates the tale. Also, the book concludes with a ridiculous twist that nearly ruined my enjoyment of this otherwise compelling and well written historical novel.
by Robert Alexander
This is a highly readable and suspenseful story with an undercurrent of dread running throughout, as we await the killing of the Romanovs. In fact as the time of their execution approached, I put down the book several times as if to ward off their imminent deaths, which, when they finally arrived, were described in surprisingly coarse language, as if seen through the eyes of their killers. The brutality of their murders was all the more disturbing due of the empathy shown towards the royal family throughout by the author and the kitchen boy who narrates the tale. Also, the book concludes with a ridiculous twist that nearly ruined my enjoyment of this otherwise compelling and well written historical novel.
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