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Sep 18, 2010
Daisy
rated it
it was ok
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Annoying use of adverbs.
Melodramatic. Tedious.
Sorry.
Nice narrator voices (there are two), but kind of pretentious performances. I'm no expert but the mispronunciation of some of the foreign phrases, not only the Russian ones, ought to have been corrected. Would I have liked this better as a read book as opposed to an audio book? ...more
Melodramatic. Tedious.
Sorry.
Nice narrator voices (there are two), but kind of pretentious performances. I'm no expert but the mispronunciation of some of the foreign phrases, not only the Russian ones, ought to have been corrected. Would I have liked this better as a read book as opposed to an audio book? ...more
Intriguing for its look at the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, but the two protagonists are such an odd blend of naivete and nascent martyrdom that it's hard to feel any human connection to them.
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I liked this book, because it gives a very interesting perspective on the end of the Romanov dynasty. I really liked the main character, whi was the sister tsarina Alexandra.
Sep 06, 2010
MichelleCH
marked it as to-read
Jun 09, 2019
Kara
marked it as to-read
