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Summary: EXTRAORDINARY LOVESTORY*****10 stars******
Review: All I can say is: read this book!!!!Alexander and Tania will stand out in your memory just like Jamie and Claire Fraser from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. This book has just about everything, history, passion, political intrigue, adventure, betrayal, secrets, and a tortured hero that you will come to love with all of your heart. I took many things away with me from reading wonderful, wonderful book: to appreciate my family and love & live life to the absolute fullest. Tania and Alexander make this book worthwhile to read over and over and over again. A 600+ page book that took me three days and nights to read. Plenty of reread moments in this book. Believe me, you will not be able to put this book down. Thank You Paullina Simons. For you have written a beautiful story that soars. I await the sequel. This book is a keeper.
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Summary: Beautiful Story!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I absolutly agree with all the previous reviews. This wonderful book stayed with me for days after i finished it. I did not want it to end, although i think my husband and children were glad to have mommy back. I was even a little sad after finishing it. It was hard letting go of Tatiana & Shura. I even think this book has "MOTION PICTURE" written all over it. But only after the sequel!!!!
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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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