Anastasia

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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. But I’m kind of a bad person, so I definitely enjoy fictional character deaths, the more brutal the better.

Anastasia by Sophie Lark - Fantastic Fiction

The plot was there, but most of the book was actually Anastasia’s character developing, and her sort of ‘finding herself’? Out of all of her siblings, Anastasia is the one who longs for the mystery and roughness of the outdoors. They are barely together on-page but somehow are described as being best friends and I was like “when did this happen? But I think Sophie shifted the dates around for the plot, cause nothing was happening when it was supposed to. 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.Obviously there aren't going to be any explicit moments at that point in their life, but that seems to be the whole foundation of their relationship as adults. With how long this book is you'd think I'd know everything there's to know about him but even having his POVes I still feel like I don't know him. Synopsis: “ They Murdered My Father, So I Stole Their Daughter… She’s my captive, my little ballerina who dances only for me.

Anastasia - Sophie Lark

You can say it’s Lark’s first fantasy book and I shouldn’t be so harsh on her but truly, when did we allow mediocrity to rule our opinion? She was the literal girl next door – a cute skinny redhead who’s turned into the most gorgeous woman I’d ever seen. 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. This is a thick book, but it’s not dense: it still contains characters you’ll have strong feelings for, darkness, humor, and in essence the motivations of connection and love that drive all their stories. It’s not a good time to enter into a new romance, but that doesn’t seem to matter when the chemistry is this red hot.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.

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Being a fantasy reader and Sophie Lark fan, I never had a second of worry that I wouldn't enjoy this book. Second of all, certain descriptions of the Cossack society did make me roll my eyes sometimes (for refence I live in Kuban, southern Russia, where Cossacks are still prominent to this day). She loved being splashed across the silver screen and the gossip pages, dating co-stars and gangsters. Reader be warned: this is a dark and steamy serial killer romance that will take you on a journey through the twisted mind of an artist on the brink of madness. Anastasia meets her love interest, Damien – because it’s not a retelling so Lark couldn’t use Dimitri but she had to come with A Good Russian Name (that’s irony) starting with the letter D, obviously – when he tries to kill her father.B) Despite all my criticisms thus far, I am genuinely impressed (but not grateful because 900 pages) with the amount of history put into this. It feels like fantasy and romance elements (it is marketed as fantasy romance) take a backseat and sneak in like little thieves in the middle of the night in the book. Given that this is already a rather dark retelling, I would have preferred for the villain to be defeated, while also preserving all the horrible consequences birthed from poor choices of the monarchy.