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Daughters of a Dead Empire
Daughters of a Dead Empire
Daughters of a Dead Empire
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Daughters of a Dead Empire

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"This fresh, thrilling take on Anastasia establishes that O'Neil is a debut author to watch."Buzzfeed

From debut author Carolyn Tara O'Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution.


Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war—the poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possible—not realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor, Evgenia accepts Anna's offer and suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of the war.

Anna is being hunted by the Bolsheviks, and now—regardless of her loyalties—Evgenia is too.

Daughters of a Dead Empire is a harrowing historical thriller about dangerous ideals, inequality, and the price we pay for change. An imaginative retelling of the Anastasia story.

A Junior Library Guild Selection

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Release dateFeb 22, 2022
ISBN9781250755544
Daughters of a Dead Empire
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Carolyn Tara O’Neil

Carolyn Tara O’Neil grew up in a tiny New York City apartment filled with thousands of books. Every Friday she went to the public library for even more reading material. She's lived in France, Spain, and Japan, before circling back to New York. Carolyn now lives in a slightly smaller NYC apartment with slightly fewer books, and still goes to the library every week. Daughters of a Dead Empire is her debut novel.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    crude words and gory for a young adult read, but very well done.Daughter of the tzar escapes and tries to get to her side while a girl from the "Reds" unknowing who she is, helps her. We are all the same--hunger, family, wanting to do good, ...just different views of way to achieve this rather than war and killing ...
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I wasn't expecting much from this book (I can't count how many tellings of the Anastasia story I've read), but something about this version felt very compelling. Perhaps because Anna and Evgenia felt very real and their arguments - about revolution, politics, humanity, morality, socialism - also felt very current and relevant. There's also plenty of action and a quick pace, which makes this book an engrossing read. Highly recommended for fans of historical fiction set during the Russian Revolution.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I have read a number of novels about Anastasia Romanov - some good, others not so good. "Daughters of a Dead Empire" was in the former category, in fact, it was one of the best novels about this young girl and the Russian Revolution that I have read. It was full of action, emotion, humanity and historical detail. The author didn't pull any punches and there were some stomach-turning descriptions of brutality, torture and death, From the start, the reader is thrown into the action as Anna escapes from her family's execution and meets Evgenia, a young Bolshevik, who tries to save her. The narration of the novel is shared by these two young women which provide interesting insights into the differing perspectives of the Revolution. At the start, the two girls are polar opposites in outlook and wealth. However, they are both strong characters and gradually respect and a close friendship forms between them as they interact and protect each other from the dangers they are facing. Their journey is definitely not an easy one but along the way they come across some wonderful secondary characters, especially the Czech officer, Lieutenant Jiri Valchar."Daughters of a Dead Empire" was a fabulous read. I was totally invested in the lives of Anna and Evgenia. I could understand their differences and I lived their development. This was an impressive, well-written debut and I am looking forward to reading what Carolyn Tara O'Neil writes next.

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