Anastasia’s Midnight Song by M Laszlo

By Emma Fitzgerald -
Thank you hyggebooktours and @HauthorMLaszlo for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. Anastasia Midnight Song has a beautiful and unique front cover and the title fits it perfectly. I found this book fascinating and was so different to other books I have read, which is great. I liked the characters Anastasia and Jack, and they are totally different from each other and I liked how there fate/journey entwine them together. Anastasia Midnight Song is fantasy / historical fiction that is set in 1917 in St Petersburg. I think Anastasia and Jack are brilliant characters and I enjoyed getting to know them and the plot was fabulous. The story was easy to follow, and I got into it straight the way. There is a great amount of tension and darkness that runs through the book. Anastasia Midnight Song will encapsulate you from the start, and you will not be able to put it down. 5 star. Bio St Petersburg, 1917 French Huguenot Anastasia believes working in one of Sinai’s mirror factories will allow her to trap the imaginary Arctic Fox which lives in her womb. Meanwhile, Jack escapes from London and travels to Sinai to avoid being conscripted to fight in the trenches. His strange imaginings do little to alleviate his feelings of cowardice. When they meet, Jack is seized with a fierce desire to possess her, and nothing can diminish his obsessive urge to be noticed by her, despite her obvious disgust of his crude advances. Their journeys twist together like a fugue, filled with fantastical delays, as they both fail to accomplish what they set out to do. On a quest for moral truths and unable to escape the consequences of their false beliefs, they relentlessly approach the acute phase of their schizophrenia. Anastasia’s Midnight Song is a revelatory, hallucinatory account of the growing insanity of two young people who happen to be in the same place at the same time.

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