A REVIEW AND SUMMARY OF “THE ROMANOV PROPHECY”
1918- Nicholas II, the tsar of all Russia, and his family were executed in Lenin’s order. A relative, Feliks Yussoupov tried to rescue them, but it’s just the tsarevich, Alexei and grand duchess Anastasia who were rescued and carried off somewhere safe from the revolutioners. It was the grossest part of the book. The execution of the royal family, I mean. It was foreseen by the starets (the patriarch of all Russia), Gregorii Rasputin and he told it to the tsarina, Alexandra, who just wrote it in a diary and to a letter for her husband.
present time- The Russians wanted to have their tsar back. There was a direct
heir from Nicholas II’s line, and the remaining Romanovs were all claiming the
throne for himself. And the best candidate for the Romanov throne was Stephen Baklanov, a traditional politician, who just cares for the money and wealth of the crown. So it’s up to Miles Lord, a lawyer who works for the Tsarist Commission to look for flaws in Stephen’s succession to the throne. He read to through the archives, and found a trail of where Feliks Yussoupov could possibly hid the last of the Romanov children. With the help of a beautiful Russian circus performer, Akilina, Miles was able to outrun goons and follow the clues in journals, letters, graveyards and Faberge eggs that could take him to the rightful heir of the throne.
It has some similarities with the Da Vinci code, when it comes to the characters. Miles was somehow Robert Langdon, Akilina was Sophie Noveau, Taylor Hayes was Leigh Teabing, and the Secret Chancellory was Opus Dei, and so on.
I even anticipated that Akilina was the heir, since her parental heritage was mentioned in the book. But I was wrong. Michael Thorn, a local lawyer in Atlanta was the direct heir. Alexei, who became Paul Thorn in United States, was Michael grandfather, and he was told long before to expect that Russian throne would be once again theirs.
After six months, Michael ascended the throne and became Mikhail I, and his wife became the tsarina, making their two sons a grand duke and a tsarevich.
The
book was good. Before seeing it in the library, I’ve seen it somewhere, and I just don’t know where. It was oddly familiar to me. There were also few grammatical errors, but I think that was Steve Berry’s style, and I could accept it, for the name of creative writing. And I also admire Berry for his unpredictable plot of his story. While reading, I was predicting everytime, things didn’t turn out what I’ve expected. Anyway, I could give a perfect ten stars out of ten because of the book doesn’t have offending contents, well, except for Russians being barbaric. You know, Steve Berry stated in the book that the country was full of mafiya, and even said that they don’t cover the dead. Ew. At least no belief was offended and attacked, and the Russians simply knew that it was indeed true, and they knew better that to hunt for Steve Berry. The more you raged on, the more it affects you.
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