Anastasia

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I don’t mind it. In fact, it feels stranger when it’s off.” “It feels like I’m being swallowed by an anaconda!” “You can loosen it after the party,” Ollie said. “That’s what I do.” I planned to burn my corset after the party but didn’t say so.” This started very slow, had lots of fillers and I didn’t really vibed with the word building and writing in itself. It was more like historical metafiction rather what it was advertised as, that’s romantic/ spicy retelling. secondly... there were too many damn characters and too many scenes that felt superfluous or overly descriptive. it's clear that sophie lark really enjoyed being in this setting and probably did some research and formed her own attachment to the real life story she wanted to fictionalize. but as a reader, i felt like i was swimming upstream a lot of the time. drowning in name after name of characters that i assume won't be important later on down the road because this is a romance... right? For those who've read the comments: I did not beta read this and this is not an ARC review. After thinking, I've decided to get the kindle book and read this after release. Fair warning though.... I am not a historian so do your own research. And feel free to correct me with plausible resources if I am wrong.

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first of all, y'all, a very important note. this is not a romantic fantasy. i repeat, this is not a fantasy novel with a huge subplot of romance. it's just a historical fantasy which happens to have tinges of romance. but oh, how i longed for every bit of the romance and how i loved it. 🥺 it was beautiful to see the characters and EVERYTHING in this. 💘 We should expect more. We should expect better. This book made me feel like an idiot who thought that can have a good time. If I wanted to I would have to shut off my mind and why would I do that? So somebody would try to tell me that the tsar was a good ruler, actually? I want to have a good time: I want the spice, I want the twists and turns, but I also, as a rader, don’t want to be treated like an idiot who can’t understand higher concepts. The ending can come of A little unsure, but as Sophi herself mentioned, this is her fantasy story, and she can do however she pleases. I am pleased too. Plus, I'd like to add the smart Resputin twist that was very well done and added to his charecterization for me. Very liked it. What do all these have in common? That's right. Head - completely covered. It was considered disgraceful to publicly flaunt your hair and wear men's clothing. Or was it supposed to be focused on the political side? Those were a mess of glimpses of events here and there until the big revolution and war. I wish it were focused on them because the little bit that I got was really interesting.This book is a HEA!!! I definitely got scared while reading this not knowing if it was....because lots of shit goes down lol. Thankfully my heart was spared.

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As a small example: the author confuses the poor woman Anna Petrovna — the daughter of Peter the Great who died at the tender age of 20 💀 and was never even a Russian empress in the first place, with Anna Ioannovna (who was indeed an Emperess: a weird mix of something unhingedly merry and cruel in her personality), and SLANDERED the innocent woman who didn't even do anything wrong during her short lifetime, poor thing. She was like a pile of kindling catching fire, the color and light moving through her as it took hold, growing brighter and hotter by the minute. I saw on her what I felt happening in me. I'd been dead without knowing it. Then I saw her and I came alive again.”How am I supposed to treat this story as a fantasy romance book with historical elements in it when half of it reads like an illustrated textbook on Russian history? One small correction: inaccurate history textbook.

Anastasia - Sophie Lark

Anastasia was one of my most anticipated releases and it pains me to say that it wasn't what I expected. I love Sophie Lark but this one was a miss for me. Sophie you killed it with this book, you took your writing to an other level. I can't wait for your other fantasy books<3 Events described are historically accurate... but all of those things were performed by the Russian Empress Anna Ioannovna. 💀This is my fantasy of the happy ending Anastasia deserved. Not because she was a Romanov, but because she was a human. I want all of you to have the happy ending you deserve – it’s why I love writing romance. –Sophie the writing was so special and the characters + story were amazing. it was very much a SLOWWWBURN, which i’m a huge fan of but i know some people aren’t, so beware. A year of research. 💀 Rewriting Wikipedia articles must have been a hard endeavour. Facts get mixed together all the time. 😔