Name: The Crown and the Crucible
ISBN: 9780764224645

Judith Pella

Michael R. Phillips

Follows the friendship of a peasant girl and the daughter of a prince and Imperial minister in 1870s Russia. The Russians book 1.

The Crown and the Crucible

Jeni Enjaian

I read this book many years ago as either a middle schooler or underclassman in high school. I adored the book and entire series then. This remembered adoration helped me make the decision to skip these books when reading through my collection four years ago. I read many books by both of these authors since then and gradually became aware of the glaringly obvious shortcomings of their authorship. These shortcomings infected every book I read by them. I had no hope that these books would survive a second read. As I supposed, they did not.