by Kate Furnivall
In 1917, a family caught in the midst of the Russian Revolution, is literally ripped apart when Russian revolutionary soldiers assault the train taking the exiles out of the country. Valentina Ivanova tries to barter for the lives of her husband and daughter. Lydia is saved, but her husband is beate...
This is not (to my relief) a romance novel mistakenly placed in the historical fiction section. It is in fact a complex historical novel centered around a truly engaging young woman, a White Russian refugee living in 1920's China. I actually found the romance to be not only unrealistic, but the weak...
I'm not rating this one. I got about fifty pages in and gave up, I was that bored with it. From everything that I've heard and read from other reviewers, this author's work doesn't improve. Pity, so little fiction is set in Asia.
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