Book Review: Romanov by Nadine Brandes

Seriously, it's April...is it only me or is this year flying by, not that I'm complaining that the warm weather is coming, because it's my
favorite but holly molly, it's just going by so fast.  I need to post reviews more often, and I just haven't found the time or maybe the time is just slipping from my fingers this year lol.  Oh well, let's get to this review for now.

Romanov by Nadine Brandes

From Goodreads:
The history books say I died.

They don’t know the half of it.

Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them . . . and he’s hunted Romanov before.

Nastya’s only chances of survival are to either release the spell, and deal with the consequences, or enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn’t act like the average Bolshevik. Nastya’s never dabbled in magic before, but it doesn’t frighten her as much as her growing attraction for Zash. She likes him. She thinks he might even like her . . .

That is, until she’s on one side of a firing squad . . . and he’s on the other.

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I admit, I haven't really dig much into the Romanov history, yeah I have heard about it here and there but I not one of those die hard fans that one every single detail but I love history and once I heard about this book I was totally into and couldn't get my hands on it.  And in my opinion it totally did it for me, I loved it, yes it was fiction and the facts may have not have not been all 100% all right, but that's what a fiction book is, right?

Can we talk about the Romanov's? I loved getting to know about the family, yeah maybe they were not all so tight and loved each other like in the book but I personally loved that it was done this way.

And let's talk about Anastasia, there were times  I wish she could step up a little more but man, when you look at what she was going through I would probably freak out so bad that I wouldn't do half of what she did.  And the romance, well I'm still not sure how I feel about it, no spoilers but what the heck I don't think I could ever forgive him.  

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and gave it 4 out of 5 stars and it has made me want to learn a lot more about the Romanovs. 

Did you read it yet and if so what did you think about it?

XOXO,

Nelia