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    The Passion of Marie Romanov: A Tale of Anatasia's Sister

    Written by Laura Rose

    Narrated by Lillian Webb and Travis Smith

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    July 17, 1918—from the writings of Marie Nicolaevna Romanovna, age 19. Midnight, in bed with her sister, Anastasia (Shvybz), in the Ipatiev Mansion in Ekaterinburg, during the last night of their lives.

    "So much of my story unfolds by moonlight. This is a tale of midnight waking’s and forced marches before dawn. Since this nightmare began, I do not dare undress, even to go to bed. I wear my dressing gown, my hair is prepared, and my shoes are set beside me. I have no idea when we will be summoned to rise. We have moved, as in the worst of dreams, slowly toward this place. There is no logic other than the sleepwalker’s obedience—to follow instruction, which we cannot resist: an actual lunacy. Now, I have control only of this—my record of what happened to us, to me. I have committed a single sin, my one terrible transgression. I pray to be absolved. In this recording of memory lies all meaning to my life. Let my will prevail in this, my ultimate wish, to salvage something of value from this tragedy. The rest, as my mother says, is in God’s hands. When I look back, as I must in the short time allotted to me now, I can see the exact moment when our lives changed: at last light, on the thirteenth of March, 1917."

    The Passion of Marie Romanov is based on original diaries and letters and told from the point of view of the third Romanov daughter, Marie, Anastasia's closest, older sister. In startling new historical detail, Marie's story is unique. Marie is the only one who crossed the frozen Siberian river with her parents and only Marie shared her full 78 days and nights in ‘The House of Special Purpose.’
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLantern Audio
    Release dateJun 11, 2015
    ISBN9781942248552
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    • 4/5
      This novel is written as a diary of Grand Duchess Maria Romanova, third daughter of the last tsar, Nicholas II, during the 16 month period between his abdication in March 1917 and the family's brutal massacre in the Urals town of Ekaterinburg in July 1918. The diary has supposedly been retrieved by one of the guards who reluctantly took part in the massacre and is now being interrogated by monarchist forces after they retook Ekaterinburg a few days after the killings. The novel is very well written, with a haunting literary quality. The first third of the book covers the five month period when the family was under house arrest in the Alexander Palace, and nearly all of the rest of it covers the three month final period in Ekaterinburg. The eight month exile in Tobolsk in Siberia in between is covered in only about as many pages as months, which seems rather unbalanced (though this was a relatively uneventful, peaceful and happy time for the family, devoid of dramatic incident). While the novel is clearly meticulously well researched in many ways, and the author has visited many of the relevant sites in Russia, it has to drop a point for containing a large number of spelling mistakes and typos - particularly egregious considering the author's great interest are the misspellings of "Feodorvna" for "Feodorovna", and the misuse of "Romanovna" (a patronymic) when "Romanova" (a surname) is meant. One of Alexei's attendants is also continually misspelled as Deverenko, instead of Derevenko (related to the Russian word for wood). These constant errors were irritating and this otherwise excellent novel was clearly not properly proofread.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this historical fiction book. You really want Marie to escape but of course she didn't. It is all the more sad as the deaths actually happened.
    • 4/5
      Loved the world building, didn't like the ending..... at all. (But it was not my story to tell)
      Still worth a read and the COVER GLOWS IN THE DARK... Just an FYI
    • 4/5
      This is great! Post-climate-catastrophe, floating city, refugee crisis, tech-telepathy with orcas and polar bears. I loved the mash-up of different cultures, the vibrancy of the city, and the way gender identity was handled. Full of ideas big and small, loads of action. Well done.
    • 4/5
      Climate change has turned much of humanity into refugees. Qaanaaq is a floating city in the Artic, controlled by its shareholders and teeming with both registered and unregistered occupants. When the sole survivor of a genocide arrives with an orca and a captive polar bear, she provides an impetus for a war by a crime syndicate against a powerful shareholder. All the while, the strange disease the breaks is driving people to horrible deaths amidst images of lives they’ve never led, and the AIs running the city can’t do anything about it. Although almost everything goes wrong and key players don’t make it to the end of the story, it’s also about the kind of hope that can persist even in ashes, and the family connections that survive all kinds of wrongs.
    • 3/5
      Read this book for my f2f bookclub. It is a dystopia book written by Sam J. Miller and is set in the near future after a climate and techno disaster destroys most of the world. People are living on this floating object in the arctic circle area. It is science fiction involving nanobonding (people to animals) and bots, AI, etc and like a lot of SF it addresses current cultural issues of capitalism, the right to own property, and genders/pronouns, While it was easy to read, there were difficulties as well. There is a aspect of mystery and thriller and goodly amount of blood and violence.