The Star of Kazan

Great book! The storyline is fantastic, with many plot twists!

very very good well done eva ibbotson

I loved the adventure hidden beneath this book, I love Eva Ibbotson because of her imagination and creativity. At first I thought this book would have been pretty predictable but as I got nearer to the middle or the climax, it got more and more exciting.

amazing book. it's about Annika, the fostered child, who, from the very moment she hears about Ellie and Sigrid finding her left in a chapel in the mountains, wishes to find her mother again. But she is tricked into thinking Frau von Tannenberg is her mother. In a will, Annika is left the Egghart's great aunt's trunk from her theatre days. All Frau von Tannenberg really wants is the jewels inside that trunk. In a will, Annika is left the remnants of the Egghart's great aunt's trunk from he...

Great book, a whirlwind of love, relationships, reunited, trickery and betrayal ...

good book.

Good book. You think it is predictable but it really isn't. There is strong story line and a nice calm ending. A lady works as a cook in a grand professors house in Vienna, Austria. She finds a baby in a beautiful church and she and her friend, the housemaid raise the baby like she is their own. They name her Annika after the cooks mother. When Annika is twelve a woman appears at the front door of the professors house. She says she is Annika's mother and takes to her house in germany and i...