Charlotte's Attic: Book Review Time for Dreaming Anastasia!!

This is my first book review! I'm excited about this, so let's get started! The book I will be reviewing is called Dreaming Anastasia and it's quiet amazing might I say! But I'll give a recap of the book so you can get the full overview.

Sixteen year old Anne thinks her life is pretty ordinary – until she smacks into handsome, mysterious, and okay, annoying Ethan on her way to chemistry class. Now Anne has powers she doesn’t understand, a history altering mission she may not want, and a growing attraction to this blue-eyed stranger. And Ethan- who at eighteen made some choices he’s starting to regret – realizes that Anne is the girl for whom he’s been searching – for a very, very long time. Stir in doomed Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia – who is definitely not quite as dead as the history books say – and Baba Yaga, the legendary witch from Russian folklore, and you’ve got DREAMING ANASTASIA, a contemporary fantasy that alternates between the voices of Anne, Ethan, and Anastasia as Anne and Ethan join forces to battle the bad guys and save Anastasia. Only problem is – no one’s quite sure who’s really bad and who’s good. And everyone has some secrets...

So if that doesnt sound riveting then I don't know what does!! Let me give a bit of background on the book and the Romanovs for those of you who don't know. The book is centered around Anne, who keeps dreaming about Anastasia Romanov. And I know most of you probably know who that is, but for those who don't she was the last Czar (king) of Russia's daughter. Czar Nicholas was a very poor leader and the people of Russia were unhappy with him, World War 1, and the hunger and poverty their country was plagued with. Revolution was stirring, and in 1917 Nicholas abdicated the throne and was put under house arrest along with his family. In 1918 the bolsheviks killed the entire Romanov family in the basement of a building they had been taken to. Their bodies were then taken to the now famous burial site where they were uceremoniously thrown in their graves where they would lay rotting until many many years later. But there have always been many rumours that Anastasia or Alexei, or some of their other daughters escaped and managed to survive. Dreaming Anastasia brings a lot of Russian folklore into the mix of the story and it gives a lot of good and interesting information on Anastasia and her family. It is a pretty amazing book that puts a new spin on the old but great story of the Romanovs. I highly recommend reading this if you like history, fiction, action mysteries, or all three! I'll conclude with some pictures of Anastasia, her father, mother, brother, and four sisters (Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia. That is the order of their ages as well, with Alexei being the youngest child.)