Anastasia

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Sometimes I missed Damien desperately, and sometimes I wished we'd never met. It was too painful and too impossible. We could never be more than we were, and I couldn't bear to be less.

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The book was sold by Lark herself as a “Spicy fantasy retelling of Anatasia” the animated movie. I thought, “Yeah, cool, sounds really cool, the spicy retellings I’ve read were kinda meh but people love Lark on TikTok so this is going to be fun!” 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. 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.When I read my first Sophie Lark book I had this gut feeling that I was reading the words of someone who had immense talent with both craft and storytelling ability and I could not WAIT to follow her career. Damien is someone that Anastasia is drawn to from the start, and though he is around her over a long period of her life, they aren't together the majority of that time. They get to see each other only here and there until probably the last 30 percent of the book, but each one of those times really counted. I felt so much every single time they interacted. I didn't even mind their time apart because of it. Generally, I hate when the hero and heroine aren't together for that much of the story, but in this case, Anastasia's personal journey was so interesting and entertaining on it's own it didn't matter to me at all. 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.

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This book is not a retelling of any other Anastasia story. It’s set in 1919 in a world similar to ours, but with magic. My next series will be a vampire family saga set in the modern version of that same world. There are also fantastic supporting characters here. The ones you love (Felix Yusupov ❤️🥺) and the ones you will hate so deeply and completely that they could haunt you. At one point The magic system was very intriguing and the world-building was easy to follow. As a person who doesn't read fantasy romance, or fantasies in general, I think this could be a great one for beginners because I never felt lost reading this book. I will say that it felt a bit long-winded at times, and I found myself wishing for a little less words. Other than that, this was one of those reads that I became emotionally invested in because Anastasia and Damian go THROUGH it! One last aspect of the plot was the plot twist at the end. It was going so good, I was so invested by then and loving where it was headed and how it could've ended but then boom! change of plans. It's hard to explain without giving any spoilers but I wanted to scream my frustration to the sky then. I would've liked it better if it continued on that path because after that nothing was the same. That's why the logic side of the book is so low rated because seriously? Was that the only solution to give Anastasia a happy ending?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.” Do you want to read a book with interesting worldbuilding, a sizzling romance and a story to die for?

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Haven’t even read it but I already 100% do not support this book. The author stitched a video on TikTok of another user asking for a “spicy” retelling of Anastasia. While I understand many people think of the Fox movie that retells the story of Anastasia as if she survived, I don’t think it’s appropriate to write this kind of book for this particular story. Sophi Lark wanted to create her own HEA for the Real story of Anastatasia we know, and I do think she did an amazing job of it. Though, The disney Anastasia already has a happy end and I'm perfectly satisified with that movie. So this book and no other content can quite reach that perfection in my opinion. Then we've got the magic side. Original? No but for someone writing fantasy for the first time, the magic system was solid even if I wish it had a bigger part of the story. True, there was more towards the end but still, the first half was painfully slow and dull. PGEgaHJlZj0iL2Fic3MvdGhmZS1icm9rZW4tZWxmLWtpbmcta2luZ3Mtb2YtYXZhbGllci1ib29rLTItbGVpYS1zdG9uZS8iPlRoZSBCcm9rZW4gRWxmIEtpbmcgW0tpbmdzIG9mIEF2YWxpZXIsIEJvb2sgMl0gLSBMZWlhIFN0b25lPC9hPg== 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.I’d never been able to pass the portrait of Anna Petrovna without shivering. Her dark eyes seemed to follow wherever I moved, the edges of her mouth curved up in a cruel smile. Anastasia is unlike any book Sophie Lark has ever written. Don't go into it expecting the same things you get from the spicy mafia or dark romance you're used to from her, because you may disappointed if you have that expectation. That being said, this story doesn't need a faster pace or the higher heat level. It's a captivating, well written, enchanting, intriguing, romantic, and beautiful masterpiece exactly as it is. Sooo as soon as I started this read I started having some mixed feelings about it. I could tell the author did a lot of research on Russia and the Romanov family as this did read very much like a dry historical fiction. The character/family interactions were very similar to things I’ve read about them in the past so that was feeling realistic/well done. Now I’m used to fantasy books being long and setting up things but mostly that is happening for high fantasy worlds or like the fantasy elements in a story, and in this case we are not given a new world and the focus/time spent was more on the historical and political info for the time and the family.