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Bridges, Robin
3 Reviews
(4)
YA
Katerina Trilogy series.
Katerina must choose between her love for George and her desire to become a doctor. Meanwhile, she fights off another suitor, maintains her responsibilities as a necromancer, and traverses nineteenth-century Russia, Egypt, and France (not to mention the Graylands between the world of the living and dead). The trilogy's mixture of history, romance, and paranormal adventures gets somewhat confusing in this concluding volume.
Reviewer: Megan Lynn Isaac
(3)
YA
Katerina Trilogy series.
Vampires, wolves, and a protagonist with supernatural powers provide the tension for this mystery set in 1880s St. Petersburg, Russia. There are lots of period details (and many characters to keep straight); the narrative gives readers insight into a czarist Russian culture that promotes proper aristocratic marriages and forbids Duchess Katerina (the book's protagonist) from studying medicine.
Reviewer: Nancy Hull
(3)
YA
Katerina Trilogy series.
Katerina's (The Gathering Storm) power as a necromancer is proving to be harmful to herself and others. When her love, tsar's son George Alexandrovich, insists she stay at her finishing school where she will be safe, she reluctantly obeys--only to find herself threatened by a sinister ghost. Bridges convincingly weaves 1880s Russian aristocracy with the supernatural in this dark, complex second volume.
Reviewer: Nancy Hull
3 reviews
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