“What? What are you looking at me like that for?” He smiled faintly. This is the most romantic book I have ever read. This book is 900 pages long and I could keep going and going but let me make this point before I end this post. In order to keep Tatiana out of his evil clutches, Alexander must have complete indifference to Tatiana so Dimitri gets no hint of their love. He thinks Alexander is the key to his plan, and will do anything, including blackmail to make this happen. Dimitri’s only goal is to one day escape the war and sneak to America.

An even greater threat is that Alexander has a secret, and his army friend Dimitri knows of this secret.

Tatiana and Alexander’s unstoppable love becomes hidden and secretive. Tatiana is loyal to her family, and puts her sister first. Tatiana and Alexander face many challenges in this book (and that is putting it lightly!) Not only does the war invade their lives and pull them apart, but prior to the two of the meeting, Alexander had been dating Dasha, Tatiana’s sister. They have no idea that in the coming months, the entire city will literally be starving. Tatiana and her family, along with most of the three million people in Leningrad are naïve to what the Germans will actually do to their city. The day they meet is the day it is announced Hitler is invading Russia. But these two have no idea what lies in store for them. They get on a bus together and their fate is set. Their eyes meet and he crosses the street. One day she is sitting on a bench eating ice cream when she sees a young officer in the Red Army across the street. Tatiana is a seventeen year old, care-free girl who lives in a two room apartment with her parents, her grandparents, her twin brother and her older sister. “I can’t believe how not meant to be we are” This book starts the amazing love story of Tatiana and Alexander. So thank you to everyone who tweeted me because I completely fell in love. And all of a sudden my tweet stream starting filling up with “OMG the best book you will ever read” and “You will cry like you have never cried before.” When my good reading friends Amy and Claudia (and many others) exclaimed their absolute love for this book, I decided to try it. However a few days ago, Jane tweeted that the book was on sale for $1.99 and she also expressed how much she enjoyed this epic love story. But I also knew it was 900 pages and set in WWII Russia, a time setting that I didn’t think would interest a me. “Oh, Alexander,” she said, “what do you want from me….”Įver since I met Kate online, I knew The Bronze Horseman was her absolute favorite book so it has been on my radar for sometime.

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