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smart_girls_love_trashy_books's review against another edition
2.0
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Well, this book certainly wasn't the amazing Russian Empire necromancer novel I've been craving from the start, but at least it wasn't as bad as the first.
This book's main problem is that it's boring. Nothing much really happens, and when it does happen, it doesn't feel urgent. There's about three different climaxes in this book, and they all felt rushed. I felt like there was more to explain and more to do that the author just didn't get into.
I did like the new location of Egypt. It was a lot of fun, even though the writing style wasn't descriptive enough about it. Plus they get married in Riga! And the author acknowledges Riga is in Latvia! I was so happy I didn't even care that back in the Russian Empire, it was called Reva instead!
The cover is my favorite in this entire trilogy! It's summer, since the book takes place in summer and fits the desert theme of the novel. Plus I love how the dress is a combined outfit of a traditional Russian dress and a Victorian gown. It looks really pretty!
As said before though, while not awful, this book is boring and way too rushed. I felt the final climax, which only take up about two pages, was the most rushed of them all.
The historical notes made me the most upset, since the author mentions an actual doctor during WW1 who trained Olga and Tatiana to be nurses under her. The book mentions she was from Kiev, but that's not true. She was a Lithuanian princess from Vilnius who later on moved to Kiev in 1916, shortly after the royal family's imprisonment. I know I mainly know this from that Romanova sister book, but I feel like even if I didn't read that book I would've known that woman wasn't Ukrainian since her name is a Lithuanian name!
Overall, this book was fairly bland, rushed, and boring. It tried to win me over, but it failed, much like the trilogy as a whole did.
Well, this book certainly wasn't the amazing Russian Empire necromancer novel I've been craving from the start, but at least it wasn't as bad as the first.
This book's main problem is that it's boring. Nothing much really happens, and when it does happen, it doesn't feel urgent. There's about three different climaxes in this book, and they all felt rushed. I felt like there was more to explain and more to do that the author just didn't get into.
I did like the new location of Egypt. It was a lot of fun, even though the writing style wasn't descriptive enough about it. Plus they get married in Riga! And the author acknowledges Riga is in Latvia! I was so happy I didn't even care that back in the Russian Empire, it was called Reva instead!
The cover is my favorite in this entire trilogy! It's summer, since the book takes place in summer and fits the desert theme of the novel. Plus I love how the dress is a combined outfit of a traditional Russian dress and a Victorian gown. It looks really pretty!
As said before though, while not awful, this book is boring and way too rushed. I felt the final climax, which only take up about two pages, was the most rushed of them all.
The historical notes made me the most upset, since the author mentions an actual doctor during WW1 who trained Olga and Tatiana to be nurses under her. The book mentions she was from Kiev, but that's not true. She was a Lithuanian princess from Vilnius who later on moved to Kiev in 1916, shortly after the royal family's imprisonment. I know I mainly know this from that Romanova sister book, but I feel like even if I didn't read that book I would've known that woman wasn't Ukrainian since her name is a Lithuanian name!
Overall, this book was fairly bland, rushed, and boring. It tried to win me over, but it failed, much like the trilogy as a whole did.
renuked's review against another edition
3.0
I feel so CHEATED!!! This series can't just end like this! I feel like there was a missing epilogue. Review to come.
littlefoot10's review against another edition
5.0
I love Ancient Egypt, since I learned about it in Grade 5.. I've been OBSESSED... didn't even know they were going to be traveling there in this book...but I was beyond pleasantly surprised! I wish there was more to the series.. definitely love that most of the characters are real. I love history, and historical fiction is definitely one of my favourite genres (especially when it has a fantasy element to it)
adrienneambo's review against another edition
3.0
Following The Gathering Storm and The Unfailing Light, The Morning Star concludes the Katerina Trilogy. Set in Russia’s Imperial Court of St. Petersburg in 1890, the author Bridges blends historical facts and paranormal elements to create a luxuriant world combining tsars and duchesses with vampires, werewolves, and other mystical beings. Seventeen year old duchess Katerina’s ability to raise the dead as a necromancer deems her to be a valuable pawn in the power struggle between the dark and light courts of Tsar Alexandra’s kingdom. As in the past books, Katerina denounces her power and instead struggles to become a medical doctor, unheard of for a woman during this time period. In The Morning Star, Katerina faces the return of the evil lich tsar from the purgatory of the supernatural Graylands. Reunion with her love interest, George Alexandrovich, is short lived when Katerina is kidnapped by the lich tsar and sent to Egypt to release the morning star, the sword of Lucifer. Epic battles and alliances of courts are put to the test in this final installment. Will good triumph over evil? Will the love between Katerina and George last? Will Katerina’s dream of practicing medicine become a reality?
lyndann's review against another edition
3.0
Another 2.5 from me. Some problems, but an entertaining and fast read.
emslovestoread's review against another edition
3.0
Kind of a let down. Katerina spent more time mooning over George than preparing herself for what had to come. I found her weak and irritating. I finished because of Danilo-He was always interesting.
ktbgoodwin's review against another edition
3.0
The Morning Star was a good book, it just... Wasn't anything like I expected. Not in a good way, either.
Pretty strong, solid ending I suppose. I just wish that the majority of the book wasn't spent with
Pretty strong, solid ending I suppose. I just wish that the majority of the book wasn't spent with
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Katiya and George being apart. Not fun. Opposite of fun.bwilcox's review against another edition
4.0
A great conclusion to the series, I was satified at the end.
emskiewings's review
4.0
I loved the book, though I didn't like the time Katerina and George spent apart, but hey that's me, I like it was the romances go as planned. Theirs most definitely didn't though. The historical note at the ending kind of ruined it You can't change history. But it was a good story and I simply couldn't get the book out of my head and hands until I had finished it.