Book: Anastasia

 Book: Anastasia

Author: Sophie Lark

Pages: 686

This is my 82nd read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Anastasia is the princess no one needs: the fourth daughter born to an emperor without a son, and the only royal lacking a magical gift.  Until she collides with a young Cossack rebel, changing both their lives forever.  Damien is taken from everything he knows and raised as a ward of the Romanovs.  Anastasia develops a strange king of magic shared only by the Black Monk Rasputin.  While her power grows in secret, boosted by forbidden contact with Damien, Anastasia makes a mistake with terrible consequences.  Fate grants her a single chance to set it right - but saving what she lost may cost everything she loves.

This was a very interesting book.  It is a different take on the Romanov family story mixed with magic and it kept me interested for the entire book.  There is good character development and a large battle I did not see coming.  The story flowed well for the first 3/4 of the book and I was anxious to see where it was going.  Then for a part of the book - the romance took over to the point that I found myself wanting to skip ahead to see if we got back to the original story.  And it did.  I am not a big romance fan, so in my opinion it took over more than necessary.  However, the underlying story mixed with Fantasy made up for it.

Stars: 4