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White Nights, Red Morning (The Russians, Book 6)

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The Russian series has been one of the best I've read. These are the kind of books that make learning history exciting! As you read this series, you become so involved in the charcters lives and feelings, it as if you have known them personally. But the authors have done extensive research to make the true history so accurate as the characters walk through life and we view it from their eyes.The struggles and hardships, as well as the joy and happiness, we feel it all. I love the way belief and faith in God,or the search to find it, is protrayed in the lives of each individual.This book is nearing the revolution and you see how family and friends may have had differing opinions and how they dealt with it. The whole series is excellent and keeps you riveted to the end!

"The Russians" series is by far the best historical fiction I have ever read. Judith Pella(and Micheal Phillips in the earlier books) weave a wonderful story of life during the Russian Revolution. These books don't portray an idealistic view of life during this time, but,rather, a very realistic view of what people went through in Russia during the revolution. I reccomend this series to anybody who loves Russian history, romance, intrigue, or just a good cry because this series has it all!

I don't know how Judith Pella continues writing such excellent books one after another. This was another excellent book but I really missed Sergei. I know he died in the last one but I still couldn't get it through my head that he was gone!I was so attached to him throughout the series. This book focuses more on Sergei and Anna's sons, Andrei and Yuri. Andrei pursues his revolutionary ideals, while his older brother takes on the Federcenko name and becomes a respectable Russian doctor. Each of the characters face numerous obstacles in a country that is slowly crumbling to pieces beneath their feet. Another excellent read in the series. The story line never faulters and the characters never become dull or uninteresting. If you loved the first five in the series, then you will definitely love this one as well.

This novel is as well-written as the first and the storyline keeps the reader interested. Five stars for each book in the seven-part series.

As a lover of Russian history and in particular, the Romanovs, I was very interested in seeing how the author put her series together. I have heard good things about this series from several people, and I started reading with anticipation.

What a shame that Ms. Pella found it necessary to impose her evangelical world view on her readers throughout the books. Not only did she not do her homework when it came to Russian Orthodoxy and its customs, traditions and language, but she went so far as to insult the Russian people by implying that true believers couldn't possibly have been the ones going to churches. If you look at the lives of Russians who were martyred for their faith during the Russian Revolution, I think you'll find that Ms. Pella did an excellent amount of research on everything except the one thing that she holds most dear - her faith and its presence in the characters that weave in and out of her story.

Some minor details that jolted me out of the flow of action are the fact that she calls pieces of Orthodox liturgical music by Latin names. Did we miss the Great Schism of the Catholic church from the Orthodox church?? She also did not thoroughly research the proper meaning, use or place of icons and other holy traditions in Russian culture. She started, because she definitely gets the "beautiful corner" right... but then it falls flat.

Overall, Ms. Pella is a fabulous writer - her architecture of history woven with fiction is very well done, and it makes her characters and their stories very plausible and completely endearing to the reader. I would love to see her find a major, non-evangelical publisher that would help revise these books so that they do not have the label of "Contemporary Christian Fiction" slapped on them. They are too well-constructed to be pigeonholed into that narrow and slippery genre!

Love this Novel series! I purchased this set for my mother's birthday, she is an avid reader and expects high quality writing. She loved them; her friends loved them and so do I! Full of historical informations, but not to the detriment of a great story!