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Nadine Brandes

Autor(a) de Romanov

8 Works 1,065 Membros 55 Reviews 2 Favorited

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Séries

Obras de Nadine Brandes

Romanov (2019) 479 cópias
Fawkes: A Novel (2018) 319 cópias
A Time to Die (2014) 98 cópias
Wishtress (2022) 76 cópias
A Time to Speak (2015) 53 cópias
A Time to Rise (2016) 38 cópias
Untitled Nadine Brandes 1 exemplar(es)

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
20th Century
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Pequena biografia
NADINE BRANDES once spent four days as a sea cook in the name of book research. She is the Carol-Award winning author of FAWKES, ROMANOV, and the Out of Time Series. Her inner fangirl perks up at the mention of soul-talk, Quidditch, bookstagram, and Oreos. When she’s not busy writing novels about bold living, she’s adventuring through Middle Earth or taste-testing a new chai. Nadine, her Auror husband, and their Halfling children are building a Tiny House on wheels. Current mission: paint the world in shalom.

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2 1/2 stars. It flowed too slowly for my taste. I liked the overall story, but there were plenty of segments that could have been shorter. The narration for the audiobook was good, if you don't mind all the dialogue being in a Russian accent (I assume a fake one, I can't say I've heard a real Russian accent before).
 
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Dances_with_Words | outras 22 resenhas | Jan 6, 2024 |
Favorite!! Dystopian with depth of faith and gospel
 
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AliciaFries | Dec 11, 2023 |
This book seemed a little long for the amount of things that happened in it, but it was very good otherwise. The characters are well-developed. I personally liked seeing the character Emma in the book. She is a very feisty character that I do not often find in Christian fiction. The plot is supposed to mirror the original Gunpowder Plot. In the book there are many disagreements between Igniters and Keepers. This is a representation of the conflicting views between the Catholics and Protestants that divided Europe in the 1600's. The Stone Plague represents the Bubonic Plague.
I can’t wait for the new book by Nadine Brandes that comes out in May 2019. It is called Rominav and looks very exciting.
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libraryofemma | outras 24 resenhas | Oct 20, 2023 |
(I am using this book for the "Book with a Red Cover" Category of Extreme Book Nerd. Because let's face it, it has some red in it. ;))

I really really wanted to love this book. It came on the recommendation of a library user who I greatly respect. I also grew up in LOVE with the movie "Anastasia." I loved Dimetri; I can still quote Bartok. I sing the songs sometimes in the shower. I knew that the animated film was nothing like the real story of Anastasia. My brother also had a fascination with Russian history and the Romanov family. We all wanted to believe that somehow Anastasia had avoided the slaughtering of her family.

"Romanov" did a great job following the historical facts that we know. And the storylines of some soldiers learning to care for the Romanov family? That even seemed plausible. It was the parts of the story AFTER the assassinations, the fantastical elements, that made the book get really REALLY weird. A Russian nesting doll with spells? Anastasia and Alexi alternating between living and dead souls? The love angle even when we thought Anastasia was a ghost? Uh uh.

I get what the author was trying to do. She, like all of us, wanted to share a happier tale. That Anastasia and Alexi really did survive--which in the mid 2000's the world found out that was not the case. Still. I would have preferred more of a realistic fiction angle as opposed to a fantasy angle that just did not make sense. I really skimmed the final chapters due to its plotline (which felt all over the place)

The book had so much potential when I started. I hate that this was the outcome.
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msgabbythelibrarian | outras 22 resenhas | Jun 11, 2023 |

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Obras
8
Membros
1,065
Popularidade
#24,176
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
55
ISBNs
37
Favorito
2

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