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Ok, so it was about history that you can read in any book, right? Wrong! Knowing what eventually happened as hinted at in the book, I switched over to Wikipedia for a little more background to the story, you know, to fill in the blanks. Oh, there were plenty of details concerning those mass murdering Reds all right. Something that somebody should have pointed out to my fellow students back in '72 who thought that Communists were cool dudes. You see, that must have been what the Tsar and his family thought as they patiently awaited their fate. After all, they loved Russia and their people loved them, or so they thought.
I wasn't the only one drawn to researching more to this story. My fellow book club members admitted to this same magnetism that the author managed to create between his characters and the readers.
Yes it was history, but the author so skillfully wove the participants lives into his tale that it wasn't until the very end that you realize that it is indeed a brilliant work of fiction.