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Book Review of The Fetch

The Fetch
The Fetch
Author: Laura Whitcomb
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
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This book was a different twist on the Romanov/Rasputin story. I've enjoyed reading that part of history and figured I would love this book. While the book wasn't bad and wasn't terrific either. The ideas, setting and characters we enjoyable but the storyline itself had me a little bored. The book seemed to be mostly made up of riding on trains, boats, etc. The characters seemed to be spending more time traveling then doing much of anything else. I felt it was pointless to make up a story about them going in a circle around the world to be searching for something that is not there. Filling it in with little stories of what happens on their transportation destiny. I think the book would be much shorter if this was left out and found it unnecessary and just a lot of page filler. I think the whole story could have been left in Russia and made into something exceptional.