A review by hannchilada
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming

5.0

While I don’t understand why this book is classified as YA, I loved it. It is so well-researched that it’s able to construct a narrative for the Romanovs, even sometimes including direct quotes to recreate a conversation. It also winds the Romanov’s story into something inseparable from the story of Lenin and the story of impoverished Russian citizens. I appreciated the way this book didn’t color the Romanovs as corrupt or as martyrs, but simply human with flaws and strengths. This representation leaves the book with an implicit question, though: could the Romanovs have changed their fate or was it, as they believed, the will of a watchful God?