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What really happened to Anastasia Romanov?
Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her.
Surely the bullets would come for her next.
But they didn't.
Instead, two gnarled old hands reached...
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Characters/People edit
- Anne: A girl who can rescue Anastasia
- Ethan: The guy Viktor sends to find Anne
- Anastasia Romanov: The last Grand Duchess of Russia
- Viktor: Head of the Brotherhood
- Tess: Anne's best friend
- Professor Olensky: A professor at NYU
- Baba Yaga: The witch who protects Anastasia
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“Because that is what seventeen-year-old girls do. They believe.”
Anastasia
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Zalupa . As in, Russian for dickhead.
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I guess people just see what they expect to see—or what their minds can handle. Even if it’s an illusion. I suppose that’s what keeps us all from just hiding under our beds some days: our own illusions that cover the secret truths and make them easier to bear.
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Because that is what seventeen-year-old girls do. They believe.
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Because as much as daughters love their fathers, a part of them longs to rebel. To become women in their own right and not just someone’s daughter
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the truth is sometimes hidden. Layered so deeply, each piece inside the other, that it’s often impossible to see.
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They invited him to a party, fed him enough poisoned cake and wine to kill an elephant, then shot him a bunch of times. Ungracious guest that he was, he refused to die. So they dumped him in the river, where, finally, he drowned.
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But love, like life and destiny, is a funny thing.
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Because in looking so intently at what might be, my mother did not always see what truly was.
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The matroyshka —the doll my mother gave me near the end, the one she told me to hold tight, even though she knew I was seventeen and far, far too old for such things. A wooden nesting doll, its figure repeated itself smaller and smaller, each hidden inside the other, the last one so tiny it almost disappeared in the palm of my hand.
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Ya khachu videt, I commanded this skull. “I want to see.”
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First Sentence edit
I didn't always dream about my family.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 3 in Dreaming Anastasia. (standard series)
Followed by Haunted.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Joy Preble (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 1, 2009
ISBN: 978-1402218170
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 1, 2009
ISBN: 978-1402218170
Page Count: 320
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