But even while the rebels debate the family's future with agonizing slowness and the threat to their lives grows more menacing, romance quietly blooms between Anastasia and Sasha, a sympathetic young guard she has known since childhood. Ousted from the imperial palace when the Bolsheviks seize control of the government, Anastasia and her family are exiled to Siberia.

Anastasia was simply not the type of person to make time for romance, so it was bit hard to board the ship, so to speak, for the romance portion.įor Anastasia Romanov, life as the privileged daughter of Russia's last tsar is about to be torn apart by the bloodshed of revolution. And what we get is… a good book, but with a plotline I can’t help but feel would have been better suited to one of her older sisters. Poor little thing never got to experience the touch of a man, so I’ll make it happen for her… fictionally.” So we now have an Anastasia romance, since everyone seems to feel sorry for the duchess who never got a chance at love. It’s not like there aren’t another bajillion and one books out there about her. In this book, it seems that the author was sitting in her chair one day and thought to herself, “I need to write about Anastasia. Yet another Anastasia book!! The Romanovs never fail to fascinate the general public (particularly Anastasia, since she was so famously said to have been survived the attack on her family). ”’I’m old enough to know what love is, truly,’ I whispered.

Anastasia's Secret by Susanne Dunlap