Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman Trilogy Book 2)

This second installment of The Bronze Horseman trilogy was BEYOND BEAUTIFUL! This book was the PERFECT sequel to The Bronze Horseman. When we left Tatiana and Alexander in TBH, Alexander had arranged.
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Not with such detail, but we already knew the salient points of Alexander's backstory. So were all those flashbacks needed, no I love this story and these characters so much already that I'll gobble up all I can about them. And I adore Paullina Simons' style, so lyrical in parts and yet so simple in others. She's enrapturing with the raw passion and emotion she uses to construct every sentence. The writing is lush, evocative, envolving. It's packed full of sensual yearning and so much tragedy. Weird, for a book where the main characters spend so much time apart.

I was beginning to get worried with Tatiana's almost apathetic attitude to all the loss and suffering she'd been a victim of. But then Paullina finds a second gear and boosts the story with new twists. Alexander is fighting for his life, like only someone as fierce and determined as he could. Tatiana can't let go. It's a penance of the heart, a silent scream of agonized loving. Tatiana is back to being the Tatiana I know and love and I'm freaking devastated again at all the stuff happening on the page.

I couldn't read the pages fast enough and yet I found myself slowing down, rereading everything up to three times because I wanted to stay in the moment.

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And then when these two come together again, we all know they will eventually I sobbed and trembled along with Tatiana. My heart was racing, I was hoping to God the enemy wouldn't get their paws on them. I was there with them in postwar Berlin. I am so glad there is a third book because as nice as that ending was, I am a total and complete glutton and I can't get enough of this story. I don't even care that The Summer Garden is as big the Encyclopedia Brittanica and 5 regular sized books fit in it nicely.

I think it isn't going to be enough to satisfy my need for this couple. So yes, Paullina Simons stole my heart and I am sure it's too late for me now. I'm enamoured with these books and as far as I am concerned she can have my heart for life, keep it and lock it away for giving me Shura. View all 9 comments. A Universe of Heartbreaking, Poetic Stars "Once upon a time, young girls met young boys when the moon was full and the nights were dark, when there was a fire and singing and joking, when there was wine and taffeta and dancing, when the music was loud and the laughing, too, when one pair of eyes stared at another, and the girl's chest swelled and the boy came up close, and suddenly she looked up, he looked down and Once there was first love.

Could not be broken.

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As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier. The only way to describe this gorgeous sequel. Our characters, Tatiana and Alexander are separated by distance, by war, by death. Their struggles while physically opposite, are emotionally and spiritually one. The heart ache and devastation seem never ending.

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How can two hearts beat strong? How can two people possibly survive? When everything they are is gone? On the outside you will walk and smile as if indeed you are a normal woman, but on the inside you will twist and burn on the stake, I will never free you, you will never be free. Near impossible to put this book down Alexander's past is revealed and relived. Life changing moments are remembered.

Tatiana works and lives in the now. The future is contemplated. Despite all of the sorrow, pain, suffering, fear, regret and longing Despite lies, war and death Love will conquer all. That simple moment is the one that propels us through life - what we felt like at the very edge of our future, standing over the abyss, before we knew for sure we loved.

Before we know for sure we loved forever. I am forever changed for having read this beautiful work of art, which to me felt just like an extension of the first. I know the third book will be no exception. View all 41 comments. Another beautifully written read! The second installment in TBH series did not disappoint. Granted, much of it was filled with struggle, heartache, and tension, but it did not lack the eternal love and persistent hope generated in the first book. The character development was huge, especially in Tatiana's case.

She showed a remarkable growth in maturity; so much that, at times, I missed the former, more carefree Tania. I found it difficult to see Tatiana in such a massive state of longing for a Another beautifully written read! I found it difficult to see Tatiana in such a massive state of longing for a large part of the book; she was just existing as time passed her by But her strength would always prevail, and what she was able to accomplish was admirable. Alexander was faced with struggles that no man should ever have to endure, and my heart continued to ache for him.

There were a lot of flashbacks in this book, which allowed us to get to know who Alexander was before meeting Tania- all the way back to his not so fortunate childhood. This book is a captivating continuation to the astounding relationship of Tatiana and Alexander. To be honest, I wasn't sure how to rate this at first because it caused me so much heartache.


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But I realized that if something inspires me to the extent in which this book has, whether happy or sad- it warrants five stars all the way! View all 14 comments. View all 6 comments. Nov 18, Kimberly Carrington-Fox rated it it was amazing Shelves: View all 4 comments. So I'm nicking something from Neruda which I find fitting because Shura, for the most part of this book, sounds like a hybrid between a South American poet and In fact, try reading that poem and you'd get a sense of Shura's pervading mood in this one.

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Just by the sheer force of his will. Or for someone who complains about shallow plot devices and transparent twists that just seems tedious when you already know where its heading five chapters in. This one you already have a vague idea what's going to happen in the end. It's like watching Rocky. You know he's going to win because Initially, the story is divided into three storylines points: I was very partial to the Shura POVs early on and it was done really well insert dirty, lascivious smile here craftily avoiding the traps of redundancy by bringing something new to the table and stopping appropriately at some point so as not to hamper the story from moving forward.

And writers planning to jump in the alternate POV bandwagon should probably take notes. But the loss of this storyline somewhere in the middle did make me feel the merging stories of present day Shura and Tatia ie post-TBH got a little too indulgent. I was finding my mind drifting amidst their internal monologues because I have gotten myself attached to both these characters and reading about the mental torture of surviving the distance of an ocean and war, the doubts and uncertainties, the injustices endured and the temptations resisted To be reassured that yes you are sitting beside a loved one and there's food in the table, that someone just liked your vacation photo in Facebook and somewhere, someone watching Honey Boo-Boo on TV.

There is one moment, a moment in eternity. There's still stretches of scenes that defy belief, plot twists that border on the fantastical juxtaposed with Tatiana's realistic descent into grief. Moments of Shura's near-impossible, superhuman feats he may or may not have his very own Inglourious Basterds somewhere down the line grounded by his one weakness. Man of Steel that one. But never letting you forget when and where it is and what you've gotten yourself into. Because just as in The Bronze Horseman , this book vividly portrays the horrors of war, what it reduces men into and what it leaves in its ravaged path.

What's new in this installment is the looming threat in the aftermath: Some have said they are happy with how things ended in this book, and I can now fully understand the trepidation to continue to The Summer Gardens. That last two chapters and watching too many episodes of Mad Men will tend to do that, I guess. And ten s bucks says, Don Draper has nothing on Alexander Barrington Gad, even his name gives me girly tingles. Her lips moved to his mouth.

View all 38 comments. It truly is the most consuming and beautiful love story I ever read! Full of devotion, ache, longing, angst, despair and above all hope. If they were lucky to find each other, they will always find away towards each other.

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They can't conceive a world without the other in it! So there are love stories and then there are Tatia and Shura story After being torn apart,Tania and Shura are trying to survive in a world consumed by war, trying to survive without each other. The book goes back and forth with both POV's We also get several "flashbacks" of Shura's life before the war, since he was a little kid leaving America for Soviet Union to many key moments of his life, that molded him to the man we first met in the previous book!

The most selfless, brave and resilient character! She never gives up and she will do everything for the love of her life! How can she go on, if she left her soul behind? I don't think so! What he went through in this book just broke my heart At all costs he must survive and get back to her. No matter how impossible it seems, he will never give up. The flashbacks gave a whole new take on his actions and all he went through. Even as a teen he truly was the wise one, and could see what his parents denied to see. And then,we see how one moment changed the course of his life forever.

In the whole book, many of his chapters were the most heartbreaking I ever read and left me a sobbing mess I'll make you proud. I'll be ungreedy and unselfish, unprideful and unvengeful. I'll be as hard a man as they come. I want you to be a good man. It'll stay with my forever and ever!

Now, did you get how much I love this book? I need more stars I can't talk right now, tears are flowing There just aren't enough stars View all 21 comments. The Bronze Horseman was a beautiful love story set in war torn Russia. This almost guaranteed readers would be desperate to see Tatiana and Alexander reuinited.

I know I was. Tatiana had escaped to America where their son Anthony was born. Each of their stories overflowed with grief. For both Alexander and Tatiana there was plenty of reminiscing of their times together but as the years progressed, instead of getting easier their grief became insurmountable, their desperation unbearable. When Tatiana eventually finds the evidence she needs that Alexander may still be alive she takes matters into her own hands and returns to Russia hellbent upon rescuing her man.

From the ouset all I wanted was to see them reunited but theirs was no easy path. Having come this far with Tatiana and Alexander through their struggles I'm eager to get started on The Summer Garden. As I read book two I couldn't help pondering how the worlds population righted itself after the tragedies and traumas of WWII. How did individuals, families, communities move on and not get bogged down in despair, in depression, in PTSD?

There must have been literally millions of people who simply could not move on with their lives and losses post-war. Whatever the case, I'm sure it will not disappoint and I trust her implicitly to take them and me where we need to go.


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Straight out the gate I am going to tell you this one was not as good as the first. Though I did enjoy catching up with old friends, I did not enjoy hearing every stinkin' detail of where they had been and what they had been up to. I especially did not want to hear about every damn random thought that flickered through their minds. I liked the general plot of the story and it was nice seeing the continuation of the characters I had fallen for originally. I would have liked to see more with new characters, such as making the few that were provided more memorable.

Tweaking this character issue would probably fix my next issue, the two hundred or so pages of repetitive filler. It would have added a new flavor to the rehashed content of those pages making them more interesting and tolerable. Geez…this review makes it sound like I hated the story.

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I assure you I did not. I figure you got my attention…now you must work harder at keeping it. Nada me preparo para Tatiana y Alexander. Este libro representa demasiado. Juro que me pase toda la lectura llorando. Sin duda, lo ame. An infinity amount of stars. While reading this, my heart was broken in a million pieces but at the same time, swelling to take up my entire chest. It caused too many feelings, my heart almost couldn't handle it. My love for this book is forever. To put one foot in front of the other. Not to give up…. In this same way, they help the reader get through their separation by constantly giving hope.

This is such a story of survival and love. If I were going to be stuck on a desert island for the rest of my life and could only bring one series of books, it would be these. You just have to experience it for yourself. Again, this book is long, not as long as the first one though but my print copy is pages. But it did not drag even once. And there is absolutely zero fluff. Absolutely everything mentioned is a vital part of the story. Her suspicions are further raised by Alexander's Hero of the Soviet Union medal which she finds in her bag.

Tatiana buys land in Arizona from the money that Alexander had hidden in the Bronze Horseman book. Gradually, she starts getting over her past, and is known to everyone as the "Angel of Ellis", because of all the immigrants she has helped get jobs. Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union, Alexander narrowly escapes death at the hands of the Soviet Government.

However, he is ordered to lead a batallion of convicted criminals and head westward into Germany. Alexander finds this to his advantage, as then he could escape to America. He, after losing many men, finally makes it to German soil, where he encounters Pasha Metanov. He had survived the attack on the train, and joined the German Army. When he comes to know about his family, and Alexander's plan, he agrees to surrender to the Germans.