Review: I Was Anastasia

I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

QOTD: Have you ever felt that you live another life before this one?

AOTD: The day I stepped in St. Petersburg, Russia, I felt like I had been there before. When I mentioned this to my mom, she told me that I used to pretend that I was a Russian Princess when I was a child. This is enough to make me think that there is a possibility that we live other lives and that some memories remain somewhere deep in our brain.

My Review:
A friend recommended this book since she knows I am a big fan of the Romanov family. The Romanov family ruled Russia for more than 300 years. In 1917, after 23 years in power, the last Russian czar, Nicholas II, faced a revolutionary coup by The Bolshevik, led by Lenin. The entire royal family, along with their servants, were sent to Siberia, where they were murdered and dumped in a mass grave. However, the grave was not discovered until some 60 years later. Where 11 bodies should have been, only 9 were discovered and Anastasia’s body couldn’t be confirmed.

Whispers that Anastasia had been whisked away with a stash of the royal family’s jewels sewn into her clothes before the Romanov family massacre occurred, ran rampant throughout Russia. Had she been in hiding all these decades, living a secret life?

I was Anastasia is her story. It is a wonderful book but I wish the author had written in a straight timeline instead of going back and forth in time. But this style of writing was necessary to bring the story to a surprising ending.

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