A Holland Reads: The Girl Who Fought Napoleon by Linda Lafferty

I received this book in exchange for a fair and honest review

Published: September 20, 2016

Number of pages: 444

Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis:

In a sweeping story straight out of Russian history, Tsar Alexander I and a courageous girl named Nadezhda Durova join forces against Napoleon.

It’s 1803, and an adolescent Nadya is determined not to follow in her overbearing Ukrainian mother’s footsteps. She’s a horsewoman, not a housewife. When Tsar Paul is assassinated in St. Petersburg and a reluctant and naive Alexander is crowned emperor, Nadya runs away from home and joins the Russian cavalry in the war against Napoleon. Disguised as a boy and riding her spirited stallion, Alcides, Nadya rises in the ranks, even as her father begs the tsar to find his daughter and send her home.

Both Nadya and Alexander defy expectations—she as a heroic fighter and he as a spiritual seeker—while the battles of Austerlitz, Friedland, Borodino, and Smolensk rage on.

In a captivating tale that brings Durova’s memoirs to life, from bloody battlefields to glittering palaces, two rebels dare to break free of their expected roles and discover themselves in the process.

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What did I think of this book:

I found this book very interesting and entertaining at the same time. My first love for books will always be historical fiction. I have not read anything about the story of Alexander before so it was something new for me. I thought the author did a good job of getting the descriptions down. You can tell she did a lot of research when writing this book. This must have been hard time to have to go through. All the characters in this book were very strong to have gone through all they did. This is the first book I have read by this author but I will have to know check out other books by her as I thought she did a very good job with this one.

About the author:

Linda Lafferty was a teacher for nearly three decades, in schools from Madrid, Spain, to Aspen, Colorado. She completed her PhD in bilingual special education and worked in that field; she also taught English as a second language and bilingual American history. Linda is the author of four previous novels—The Bloodletter’s Daughter, The Drowning Guard, House of Bathory, and The Shepherdess of Siena—all of which have been translated into several languages. The Drowning Guard won the Colorado Book Award for Historical Fiction. She lives in Colorado with her husband

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