I picked up this book last week while traveling in England and as another poster stated, I finished it in a day. It was quite well written and engaging (certainly better than the Royal Diaries Anastasia, which repeats many of the inaccuracies in the animated Anastasia film) but there were still surprising inaccuracies. Kate Hubbard portrays Dr. Botkin as a widower instead of a divorcee and his children are quite young at the time of the revolution - Tatiana very young and presented as the youngest child - when the Botkin children should have been shown as young adults in 1917. She also makes Sophia Tiutcheva the granddaughter of the poet Tiutchev instead of his niece. Aside from these inaccuracies, it was an enjoyable read and one of the better examples of Romanov historical fiction. (My favourite is still Janet Ashton's "The German Woman")
