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The Morning Star (2013)

by Robin Bridges(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0385740263 (ISBN13: 9780385740265)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

series

Katerina

review 1: Overall, I enjoyed this series. There is something distinctly romantic and mysterious about books set in the late 1800s. I don't know what it is but I love them. It must have something to do with all the fancy dresses, the balls, the chivalry and the innocence of the characters. If you love that time period, then you'll likely enjoy these books. However despite the love of the time period these books are set in, I was left feeling like something was missing at the end of the third novel. The author did tie everything up at the end but I still felt a bit unsettled...almost like they didn't end on a happy note. And I suppose they didn't since one major issue wasn't fixed and it seemed to suggest that it didn't actually end happily for the main characters. However, I ... morebelieve I felt this way because I read the historical notes at the end of the book. Read this series if you love the time period. The setting will pull you in and keep you moving through the series.
review 2: Following The Gathering Storm and The Unfailing Light, The Morning Star concludes the Katerina Trilogy. Set in Russia’s Imperial Court of St. Petersburg in 1890, the author Bridges blends historical facts and paranormal elements to create a luxuriant world combining tsars and duchesses with vampires, werewolves, and other mystical beings. Seventeen year old duchess Katerina’s ability to raise the dead as a necromancer deems her to be a valuable pawn in the power struggle between the dark and light courts of Tsar Alexandra’s kingdom. As in the past books, Katerina denounces her power and instead struggles to become a medical doctor, unheard of for a woman during this time period. In The Morning Star, Katerina faces the return of the evil lich tsar from the purgatory of the supernatural Graylands. Reunion with her love interest, George Alexandrovich, is short lived when Katerina is kidnapped by the lich tsar and sent to Egypt to release the morning star, the sword of Lucifer. Epic battles and alliances of courts are put to the test in this final installment. Will good triumph over evil? Will the love between Katerina and George last? Will Katerina’s dream of practicing medicine become a reality? less

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