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Gave up after chapter 30

Revisado: 04-28-25

Wasted too much time on relationship and child issues. Quinn’s voice too soft and childish for the character. The bones investigation never came and I got bored after 30 chapters.

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I’m hooked!!

Revisado: 05-23-24

Keep writing Jodi. I only have one book left.
You and I have been together through bad times and surgeries.

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I’m hooked !!!

Revisado: 05-14-23

I don’t remember when was the last time I was so excited to download the next chapter.

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Enjoyable

Revisado: 04-05-23

Silly, weird, funny.
Very entertaining.
Zara does a terrific job.
Now I think I have to listen to the next one.

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Dry as the desert/

Revisado: 08-11-17

The background history and geography was the only thing that kept me reading.
Nothing interesting happens for practically the entire book and whatever happens is childish and predictable.
Boooooriiiiinggg....

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Best book I've listened to in years!

Revisado: 07-17-17

Engaging writing, great narration and a most unusual story of an aristocrat keeping his chin up and surviving, after his detention and the destruction of his entire life. Even the description of non essential events to the main story are so beautifully written that you seem transported to the small world of Alexander Rostov. Long but very enjoyable.

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Should have been called "Sophie"

Revisado: 04-20-17

I grew up delighted by the sweet and fairy tale style "Sissi" films with Romy Schneider. As an adult, grew interested by the connection with the tragedies of Mayerling, death of Francis Ferdinand and assassination of Empress Elizabeth. In spite of all this, I struggled trying to finish this "romance novel". Grew tired of Sophie, the witch, Franz, mamma's boy and poor suffering Sissi.
Too bad, it's really an interesting part of history.

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Bittersweet

Revisado: 08-01-16

I read "Nicholas and Alexandra" many years ago and became fascinated by the Romanov family. The lives of Peter, Catherine, Russka,(by Edward Rutherfurd), etc. followed. Recently, I was lucky to visit their three magnificent palaces and sadly also, their tombs. This account of their lives was even more moving to me, hearing their own words through their letters. Russia was ripe for a revolution at that time, but their ineptitude, superstition, isolation from reality surely did not help in their tragic end. These girls (and Alex) lived a "bittersweet" short life in their gilded palaces and it would not be fair to criticise their lives with our 21st century knowledge.

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Kept me interested.

Revisado: 07-14-16

I've said this before : a lot of people forget that this is HISTORICAL FICTION, not a History book. You can read ten biographies of the Borgias and you will find ten different versions of the facts and character of this very interesting family. We will never know exactly what happened, like many other events of the past.
I enjoyed the book and I think the narrator did a good job.

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Disappointed

Revisado: 03-10-16

It took forever to introduce the many characters, (I had not read the prior two books), and then, the blood, gore, torture of every kind starts and it seems to never end. Predictable end, typical of many other gory novels. The narrator tries his best, only to sound like an old radio scary program. No more of Kilborn!

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