It’s been a day since I finished this book and I still can’t get a good grasp on my thoughts and feelings after reading it. I asked for an epic romance and that’s exactly what I got with The Bronze Horseman. When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her form across the street… I wished for an epic romance to sweep me away and I got more than what I bargained for. Confronted on the one hand by Hitler’s vast war machine, and on the other by a Soviet system determined to crush the human spirit, Tatiana and Alexander are pitted against the very tide of history, at a turning point in the century that made the modern world. With bombs falling and the city under siege, Tatiana and Alexander are drawn inexorably to each other, but theirs is a love that could tear Tatiana’s family apart, and at its heart lies a secret that could mean death to anyone who hears it. The family suffers as Hitler’s army advances on Leningrad, and the Russian winter closes in. On that fateful day, Tatiana meets a brash young man named Alexander. For the Metanov family, for Leningrad and particularly for Tatiana, life will never be the same again.

The routine of their hard impoverished life is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades Russia. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. And now that I’m done with this, I seriously don’t know how I can go back to the world of new adult novels after having a taste of what an epic and timeless romance truyl is.Ī magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Yes, the historical approach did take some time to get used to but after a while, I even found myself fascinated knowing all those details with what happened during that time in Russia. This is just one of those epic romance stories that you know’ll stay in your heart forever.

Tatiana and Alexander’s story gave me what I asked for AND so much more. After drowning myself in a bevy of new adult novels, I felt that something was missing… I was really itching to get my hands on a novel that will really sweep me off my feet and make me feel so many emotions all at once.

Truly the most epic romance series I’ve ever read. The Bronze Horseman Series by Paullina Simons

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