Masello puts forward the hypothesis that the young woman escaped to Alaska, then owned by the Russians. Masello ties into this uncertainty linking reports of the families’ Haemophilia with a possible immunity for the Spanish Flu. There have always been suggestions that Anastasia may have escaped when the rest of her family were killed in 1918 by the secret police. The book shifts effortlessly between the time of the Romanovs just before the revolution and the present day.We are introduced to Anastasia, Grande Duchess and daughter of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II as well as the always interesting Grigori Rasputin. That’s not a word I use often in my reviews, you can check if you don’t believe me. The book grabbed me from the start and never really let go. However, Robert Masello didn’t need a fair hearing from me. Not the best frame of mind to give a book a fair hearing I hear you say, and you would be right. The reason I mention this is that I was really enjoying the book and hated to put it aside so I could read THE ROMANOV CROSS. That’s over 1,200 hundred pages for those who have not read it. However, this time I was only half way through Ken Follett’s monster WORLD WITHOUT END. This is not normally an issue as I have two weeks or so to complete the book I am on, leaving me plenty of time for the new one. This one came in when I was in the middle of another novel. My assignment this month was THE ROMANOV CROSS by Robert Masello.
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