The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry
Ballantine Books
Published in 2004
ISBN 0345460057
373 Pages
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Review/Rating:
5 out of 5
After the Russian citizens votes to bring back the monarchy, it is up to Miles Lord, a lawyer from Atlanta, to make sure there is nothing in his client's, Stefan Baklanov, background that will take the throne away from him. It was just an ordinary assignment until gunmen try to kill him on the city plaza, and now, he has to figure out why they are after him. He does some research and through reading Rasputin's writings, he discovers that there might be a direct descendant from the last tsar, Nicholas II, which will threaten the plans set by the people, who were sent to kill him. Miles only companion is Akilina Petrovna, and it's only with these two can the mystery of Nicholas II's direct descendant be solved, according to Rasputin's prophecy, but, first, will they be able to survive from the attempts on their lives?
In the beginning of The Romanov Prophecy, it starts with violence and some gory details of the scene --- yeah, it was a lovely, vivid picture in my mind, and I didn't like that much detail of gory scenes filled with blood that much. Anyways, it starts with the killing attempts on Miles Lord's life, but if you're wondering why he's in Russia getting killed, you have to either read the summary or wait until later on in the novel --- which will explain in great detail as to why he's there and all those tid-bits that can be boring at times. ;)
The idea of the prophecy and combining it with Rasputin, who is usual is viewed as a conman, was very well thought out mixed with some history of Russia --- it was pretty interesting reading that Rasputin was a viewed as a good guy in the end of a novel. This is one of the main reasons I wanted to read this book. :)
The ending was well thought of and came to an end that was really good, and to get to the great ending, it had great detail of history and description of what happened --- which got a little boring at times. Throughout the book there are a lot of politics, violence, racial prejudice, culture and history of Russia, a little bit of mystery, and a lot more politics --- bleh! :( Things I liked about the book are the culture and history of Russian that he added in there, the clever idea of Rasputin actually being a good guy and coming up with the prophecy, the mystery whether or not there was a direct descendant of Nicholas II, and also, how it showed that the United States isn't the only one that has racial problems and how to deal with it. The things I didn't like about it are the politics and details of the murder/gory scenes. All in all, it was actually a pretty good book, if you can stand the violence, politics, details, and the boring parts.
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