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Summary: One of the books that I read in a long while!!!
Review: I bought this by only reading the jacket and I can tell you that I was not disappointed. The story of Tatiana and Alexander was one that really moved me! And the detail that Ms. Simon of Leningrad during World War II made the reader feel like they were really there. So if you are a fan of either great romances or someone like periods book then this a book for you!!!
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Summary: tragic but wonderful love story
Review: After reading other reviews of this book, I am so glad to see that others were moved as I was. I couldn't put this book down. Page after page I found myself laughing and crying for the wonderful and moving love story between these two people. They love so deeply that each one would sacrifice anything for the other. I can only hope that we will meet these characters again. Thier love deserves a happy ending! I hope you are reading this Ms Simon...How about a sequel!!!
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Summary: An Amazing Love Story
Review: A friend of mine recommended this book to me. I was hooked from page one and found myself getting deeper and deeper into this incredible tale. I was fascinated by the look at wartime Russia and obsessed by the incredible, heartbreaking, wonderful love story. I did virtually nothing but read this book for three days. Then when I got to the last page, I turned to the beginning and started reading again. I have never done that before in my life, but no book I have ever read has affected me like THE BRONZE HORSEMAN.Please, Ms. Simons, write a sequel. The story of Alexander and Tatiana must continue.
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Summary: A beautifully written love story.
Review: At the outset, I was unable to put this huge book down. You will be swept into the heartbreaking love between Tatiana and Alexander almost as though you were experiencing it yourself! When they meet and feel an instant attraction for each other on a Leningrad street, you can't help but feel that it is a great match in the making. However, when Tatiana finds out that Alexander is her sister's beau, she insists that they keep their strong feelings for each other secret in order to protect Dasha's feelings. Not only this, but Alexander's friend Dimitri takes a liking to Tania and since he knows a secret that would destroy Alexander had anyone found out, he cannot know of their feelings for one another. For a great part of the book, they must live this way, until the siege of Leningrad when all of Tania's family perishes of starvation. It is this story that had the power to keep me up all night reading, wondering what was to become of the massive love that they felt for each other. Unfortunately, just like any other story, once the tension is gone, the it just isn't as spellbinding. When Tania and Alexander find each other and are finally able to consummate (and consummate and consummate) their love for each other...let me break in here and say that I nearly had to skip over about 100 pages of "moaning" and "licking"...their love almost falls flat. Toward the end of the book, it becomes more engrossing with their fight for their lives and plans to leave the Soviet Union. Alexander's secret both helps and hinders Tania's ambitions to make a better life for herself outside of communist Russia. "The Bronze Horseman" is beautifully written with lush wording and a genuine sense of longing between the two protagonists. The realistic scenes of Leningrad winters, starvation and death will be sure to impart a feeling of desperation and a need to survive as you're reading. This is a compulsively readable novel, except for the small middle part, and I was disappointed when I reached the end.
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Summary: 'Bronze Horseman' Rekindles Your Own Feelings of First Love
Review: I just finished this huge novel (600+ pages) and can only say that it is screaming for a sequel. The book ends with heartache tinged with hope. Ms. Simons, such passionate characters must be reunitied in some way, shape or form! Readers, if you like Diana Gabaldon's way with Jamie and Claire in her Outlander series, you will enjoy the intensity of feeling that Paullina Simons manages to evoke with her characters, Shura and Tania. From the very start of their relationship, I could not help but reminisce my own first love, so well drawn were the feelings both characters experience and express. The ending of the book was a bit improbable. . Tania's proclivity for ingenious sexual games for one so innocent was reminiscent of Ayla's in Auel's four part series, Children of the Earth; her mastery of this aspect of her life, somehow did not jive with her dialogue spoken at the time. Otherwise, this book was enthralling in its depiction of wartime misery especially in the wake of such movies as "Enemy at the Gate" and "Pearl Harbor."
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Summary: A Brilliant Read.
Review: The Bronze Horseman is the best book I have read in a long time-possibly ever. The descriptions of war-torn Leningrad are chilling, bringing the actual privations of it's citizens into painfully sharp focus. Desperation drives them to behave in ways they could never have imagined, such as eating sawdust and gaining pitiful relief from the warmth gleaned from neighbours' burning homes. The story of Tatiana and Alexander's love is beautiful and heart-breaking. Their amorous adventures are wonderfully passionate and yet, just...normal! All the characters are so vividly portrayed that i'd recognise any one of them in the street, (and if I saw Alexander I wouldn't let him get away!). I read the book 3 times in seven weeks and got more from it each time. I shall be starting it again soon. It is just so compelling. The Bronze Horseman is one of those books that you force yourself to read more slowly towards the end because you just don't want it to finish. In fact, the only good thing about finishing it was that I no longer had the look of a slovenly, chronic insomniac, brought on by reading into the wee small hours and neglecting the housework! I'm now finding it difficult to type because I have my fingers crossed that there will be a sequel.
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Summary: Long but worth the time
Review: Ever since Tully I have been a fan of Paullina Simons writing, and although Tully still remains my favorite, I truly enjoyed The Bronze Horseman, as I have all of her books. Simons has a knack for creating characters that have their flaws, and drive you nuts at some times, but ultimately you end up admiring them for their courage and love and you root for them to find happiness. Alexander and Tatiana are wonderful characters and their love story is heart-rending and breathtaking. It was interesting to read about World War II from the perspective of Russian citizens. Tatiana's transformation from someone who just accepted the Russian way of life as the only way to someone who saw the flaws in the Soviet Union and the devastation that it brought to those she loved was interesting and deftly written. A long book, but a wonderful book.
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Summary: Great love story, but far-fetched
Review: I absolutely could not put this book down. The love story in the setting of World War II Leningrad really captured me. The only problem with it was how I felt after I had finished it. The ending was one of those that looked to me like the author said to herself, "I've written 600 pages, so now it's time to end this book." So she tidied it up in the most unlikely scenario. This is the most unbelievable heroine ever. This book should be listed as "Fantasy."
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Summary: A barely describable mangetism
Review: Being an avid reader and a loyal fan of Paullina Simons writing I rushed out to the nearest bookstore to purchase her latest novel upon hearing of its arrival. I cannot recommend this book highly enough to everyone. I read the book in 3 days finding myself unable to put it down, I was drawn to the book, drawn to the characters. I saw what they saw, heard what they heard and most importantly, felt what they felt. I became Tatiana (the main character) and went to bed at night dreaming of and pining for Alexander and a love like the one that they shared. The characters portrayed by Tatiana and Alexander are both very strong people. They have a strength of character that not many people have, they have a love that only few of us will ever experience. Their characters evolve throughout the story in such a way that you can understand exactly why they do what they do, say what they say, feel what they feel. Yet, the other characters within this story are not forgotten, they too evolve whether they are in the story for short or long. Essentially, this book is a love story but, it is also written during the war and the writing used to describe this horrible time enables the reader to feel as though they are experiencing the war firsthand. I felt as though my living room was indeed being bombed as I turned each page. I could not put this book down and read it again 3 weeks later. I have memorised specific parts of the book that have appealed to me both as a reader and as a person. This book has been written with great passion and emotion and that is delivered to the reader on each and every page. The Bronze Horseman touched my heart in a way that no other book has done in twenty (20) years and I am sure it will touch the heart and stay in the memories of those who read it.
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Summary: The Best Book I have ever read in my life!!
Review: I loved this book, and only took a few days to complete it, as i never put it down. Every waking moment i was reading it, and some nights i could not sleep because i was thinking of Tatiana and Alexander. Sometimes i would even dream about them. I cried and cried in numerous places, and the most dissappointing thing about the book was that it ended. I re-read the ending about 10 times, and struggled with myself for days as to why i was at a loss. It was because there was no more pages to read, and i wanted to read more. I am now re-reading it, and still enjoying it the second time around. I cannot stop thinking about the characters and their struggle to survive, and the true, raw, passionate love that they shared for eachother that survived even near death. I cannot admit to myself that Tatiana and Alexander are characters, and not real, they truelly showed me how much someone can love someone else. It is by far the best book, and i will definately recommend it to anyone to read if you love true love. The realization of the war made me look at my own life differently and i think this book has definately changed my outlook to a lot of things that i took for granted like my freedom and things like food and homes. I love all of Paullina Simons books, but The Bronze Horseman was by far the best. I also am hanging out for a sequel of "The Bronze Horseman" WELL DONE TO THE AUTHOR!!
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