Anastasia was a Grand Duchess in Russia. This book is a false diary, but follows similar events as to what her life was really like. All of the events are almost set to sound like what was going on at the last years of her life. The people of Russia revolted against her father, and took them out of their home. They were all killed. Her mother, father, brother and sisters. The only one who might of escaped was Anastasia. It is believed either her, or her sister, Marie, survived. The book is what the author thinks her thoughts were during the last 4 years of her life. From the years 1914-1918.
The characters are Anastasia, her sisters ( Marie, Tatiana and Olga.), her brother Alexei, and her mother and father. Anastasia is a bright young girl. She couldn't stand when her older sisters bossed her around. All of Anastasia's sisters were a little bossy. Her brother was very sick and had been for his whole life. He had hemophilia. Hemophilia is when, if he was injured he would not be able to stop bleeding. Anastasia's family kept Alexei's illness a secret. They didn't want people to be alarmed due to the fact he was the tsarevitch. which mean he was Russia's next tsar. Anastasia's parents were like most Royals in those years. They were very polite, attended all of the important parties and threw their own. They made sure the girls and Alexei were just as polite and well spoken as them. They also prepared them for what was supposed to be their future.
I liked this book. I couldn't put it down! I don't know what I liked about it exactly, but I thought it was interesting, but not boring. Fun, but not funny. I really like reading books in the form of diaries. They give the book more "personality". It gives you a really great description of the main character and the other people in their lives. I also like that since it's a diary, all of the entries have the date they were written at the top. It makes it clearer as to when certain events took place.
When I had to stop reading I summarized what had happened and wrote it down on a post-it. It helped me keep track of what was going on, because I had a skating competition coming up and so I had to practice twice as much than I normally practice. So if I couldn't read one day and forgot what was going on, I read the post-it to jog my memory.
Carolyn Meyer was an only child. She was born November 8th, 1935. I started reading this book even before I knew she wrote "Marie Dancing", one of my favorite books. She is currently living in New Mexico. Other books she have written include, "Loving Will Shakespeare", "Kristina the Girl King", which is another book in the same series that this one about Anastasia is in.
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