Title: The Kitchen Boy
Author: Robert Alexander
Call #: ALE
In this historical fiction, 94-year-old Mikhail Semyanov recounts the final days of Tsar Nicholas and the royal family in the “House of Special Purpose”, where Mikhail was known as Leonka, the Romanovs’ young kitchen boy, and the only surviving witness to the executions. Alexander’s novel contains many interesting historical facts about the Romanovs and the Bolshevik Revolution, an element of mystery, and a surprising ending.
Recommended by: Sharon
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This book was so confusing and pointless. It’s not even real. I got so mad when I was trying to read it because it was so boring I could only read ten pages an hour. UGH. I just can’t even explain.