I had not intended on reading another book randomly in the middle of the Chronicles of the Necromancer series. But...I came across a post on Facebook linking to this book as being available for free on Amazon for Kindle. I figured why not get it to read on a rainy day....or on a day when I forget my book and so I had this to read. This is loosely based off of Catherine the Great of Russia. And is in essence a historical fiction. In my world history class I enjoyed learning about Catherine the Great, and once I realized that this is who this book was based off of I was very interested. The only disappointing thing about it was that it ended and I would need to get the other books to finish however long the series would be.
To start from the beginning...Sophie (before she converts to a different faith and takes the name Catherine) immediately becomes awesome when she attempts to fight off assassins with a dagger and does an admirable job of it. She is dealing with having to be forced into a marriage in order to save her family from extreme debt and ruin. Her character develops to the point where she has accepted her lot in life, especially when the alternative is to marry an Uncle. But then when she has finally accepted it, she falls in love with someone who is not her betrothed. I thought it was very interesting with the combination of those two using poetry to communicate secretly and the situation being similar to that of what happened with Helen of Troy (and a similarity that the characters themselves mention). And like that story, things do not go their way. At all. As much as I hated what happened to Sophie...this was an engrossing read. From what I can tell this going to be a series and I really can't wait to read the rest in this series. This is like the Paper Magician, in which I will buy the first book and the second book whenever I get my hands on it.
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