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A review by smart_girls_love_trashy_books
Anastasia and Her Sisters by Carolyn Meyer
3.0
-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 learn more about 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 you know when she was given her name, which came from Greek, a lot of Russians grew concerned and asked the Tzar to change it since Anastasia wasn't considered a proper Russian girl name? Well you do now, but you wouldn't learn that from this book.
Aside from that, like I said, this book was just alright. It was more a recollection of various important events in Anastasia's life like her other books about famous royalty, narrated by Anastasia of course. The personalities in this one seem fine, but they could always be better. I did like how Anastasia found Olga's secret diary and started reading it to herself-now THAT'S something Anastasia would do!
As stated before, if you've never read very much on the Romanovs before and want a good start, this would be a great one to try. But if you're like me and breathe the Romanovs every day of your life, well you should probably skip this one unless you want to be really bored.
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 learn more about 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 you know when she was given her name, which came from Greek, a lot of Russians grew concerned and asked the Tzar to change it since Anastasia wasn't considered a proper Russian girl name? Well you do now, but you wouldn't learn that from this book.
Aside from that, like I said, this book was just alright. It was more a recollection of various important events in Anastasia's life like her other books about famous royalty, narrated by Anastasia of course. The personalities in this one seem fine, but they could always be better. I did like how Anastasia found Olga's secret diary and started reading it to herself-now THAT'S something Anastasia would do!
As stated before, if you've never read very much on the Romanovs before and want a good start, this would be a great one to try. But if you're like me and breathe the Romanovs every day of your life, well you should probably skip this one unless you want to be really bored.