by Danielle Steel
This was not my favorite book by Danielle Steel, I kind of felt a pattern going... Very rich, tragedy, very poor, meet a man, very rich, tragedy... etc etc etc. I did find the name dropping and the mentioning of historical events kind of annoying after a while. Also, I didn't like how we sped throug...
Zoya Ossupov, a young noblewoman, second cousin to the Tsar himself, lives a sheltered life of luxury in St. Petersburg. When the revolution breaks out, Zoya´s grandmother, who has seen which way the wind was blowing, bundles up the many garments they´ve sown jewellery into and Zoya and they flee th...
Zoya is the Russian Forrest Gump, only extremely beautiful and all the men fall in love with her at first site. She's present for events surrounding the Russian Czar's family, save for the last moments, and moves to America to start from nothing and become somebody. Trite in parts but intriguing.