Anastasia and Her Sisters

Posted on 19 February 2018 by Carolyn Meyer

There s a heavy price to pay for royalty in this compelling and true story of Anastasia Romanov and fellow grand duchesses of Russia, from an award winning novelist.It s summer in 1914 and the Romanovs are aboard the Standart, the Russian royal yacht Tsar Nicholas, Tsaritsa Alexandra, their four daughters, and the youngest child, Tsarevitch Alexei, are sailing to Romania to meet Crown Prince Carol and his parents It seems like a fairy tale existence for the four grand duchesses, dressed in beautiful clothes, traveling from palace to palace But it s not.Life inside the palace is far from a fairy tale The girls younger brother suffers from an excruciatingly painful and deadly blood disease, and their parents have chosen to shield the Russian people from the severity of the future tsar s condition The secrets and strain are hard on the family, and conditions are equally dire beyond the palace walls Peasants chafe under the burden of extreme poverty and Tsar Nicholas s leadership power weakens And when the unthinkable happens Germany declares war on Russia nothing in Anastasia s world will ever be the same. New Read Anastasia and Her Sisters By Carolyn Meyer For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Anastasia and her sisters collective and individual stories have fallen prey to both mythology and writers wild imaginings Tales of escape and recognition, such as the three Anastasia films starring Ingrid Bergman, Amy Irving, and Meg Ryan, respectively , and sexualizing of the young grand duchesses as happened to Anastasia herself in Anastasia s Secret by Susanne Dunlap have contributed to a false and negative image of these of these four extraordinary lives Sarah Miller s The Lost C Anastasia and her sisters collective and individual stories have fallen prey to both mythology and writers wild imaginings Tales of escape and recognition, such as the three Anastasia films starring Ingrid Bergman, Amy Irving, and Meg Ryan, respectively , and sexualizing of the young grand duchesses as happened to Anastasia herself in Anastasia s...Anastasia and her sisters live a sumptuous life in the palace with their father, the tsar, and there are many intrigues that catch Anastasia s attention She is enthralled when she finds her older sister Olga s journal in which Olga details her star crossed love of a guard as well as some of the family secrets Covering a number of years, from well before WWII until the family is exiled and later executed , the traveling back and forth to different palaces, the family dynamic with relatives, Al Anastasia and her sisters live a sumptuous life in the palace with their father, the tsar, and there are many intrigues that ...See my review of Anastasia and Her Sisters hereI was not impressed with this one It did not feel original and I didn t get anything new out of it it was simply another retelling There was no hook, no fixed plot line, nothing I finished the book and tried to remember what I d read nothing stood out The whole thing was lackluster fo...I was initially very excited about this book because Carolyn Meyer was the author of the first book on Anastasia Romanov I ever read I was ten, and it was a gift from my mum I still have it Overall, this DID live up to expectations, only falling just the teensiest hair short of them perhaps because they were so high Meyer is a wonderful writer and her attention to detail and history is as excellent as ever, but she has one failing And that is her inability to show as well as tell As a I was initially very excited about this book because Carolyn Meyer was the author of the first book on Anastasia Romanov I ever read I was ten, and it was a gift from my mum I still have it Overall, this DID live up to expectations, only falling just the teensiest hair short of them perhaps because they were so high Meyer is a wonderful writer and her attention to detail and history is as excellent as ever, but she has one failing And that is her inability t... To begin, I didn t expect much from this book There are already a good number of books about how Anastasia sees her country s descent into war and revolution and this book followed the same lines as all the others I have seen In addition, Anastasia isn t the best choice to narrate the entire story because so much is kept from her by protective parents and older siblings If Anastasia hadn t been such an object of media attention, I think that Tatiana or Olga would have been chosen to narrateTo begin, I didn t expect much from this book There are already a good number of books about how Anastasia sees her country s descent into war and revolution and this book followed the same lines as all the others I have seen In addition, Anastasia isn t the best choice to narrate the entire story because so much is kept from her by protective parents and older siblings If Anastasia hadn t been such an object of media attention, I think that Tatiana or Olga would have been chosen to narrate the Romanovs story because they hadromance in their lives and knewabout what was going on.The one...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here A really interesting look at the Romanov family Having Olga s diary entries was like having a second perspective on events I did a paper about this family a ...POTENTIAL SPOILERS This was alright, but I don t really think I was in the proper target audience for this I m not talking about being too old to read this, since I read lots of childrens books and enjoy them I m talking about the fact that this was obviously written for someone who was just starting to read about the Romanovs.Most of the book is just nothing but exposition and explanations about who her servants were and their nicknames, and the nicknames of her family and everything, and POTENTIAL SPOILERS This was alright, but I don t really think I was in the proper target audience for this I m not talking about being too old to read this, since I read lots of childrens books and enjoy them I m talking about the fact that this was obviously written for someone who was just starting to read about the Romanovs.Most of the book is just nothing but exposition and explanations about who her servants were and their nicknames, and the nicknames of her family and everything, and that might be helpful to someone who wanted to learnabout the Romanovs, but it s not really helpful to me, who already knew so much about the Romanovs by the time I read this Plus a lot of the stuff you re told in this book you can easily find out on Google Did you know Anastasia s favorite color was pink and wore a giant pink sunhat during the summer constantly Did...Anastasia Romanova was the youngest and the most well known daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, due to the fact of the many stories and speculation which suggested she had somehow managed to escape a grisly death The hope of her surviving that horrific day had lasted through generations, even I had hoped so when I first read about Anastasia as a child in elementary school, still young enough to expect only happy endings The story of Anastasia an...I think I just read this too close to The Family Romanov, which I really enjoyed As a result, nothing in here felt very new or interesting to me I know that Anastasia is the most famous of the sisters, but framing the story through her eyes, when she was the youngest sister and protected from a lot of the things that were happening, didn t work as well for me It would have beeninteresting to see the world through Olga s eyes.This is a well written book, and if I had read it at a differ I think I just read this too close to The Family Romanov, which I really enjoyed As a result, nothing in here felt very new or interesting to me I know that Anastasia is the most famous of the sisters, but framing the story through her eyes, when she was the youngest sister and protected from a lot of the things that were happening, didn t work as well for me It would have beeninterestin...

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19 February 2018

Carolyn Meyer