The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

Boy, did I want to love this book and I just DIDN'T! Actually, I couldn't wait for it to end, and it went on and on and on. (It took me over 4 weeks to read it; I had to renew a 4 week book! That is not normal for me.)
Anyway, perhaps if I had not recently read an excellent novel about the siege of Leningrad, I might have been more favorably inclined to this one. But Helen Dunmore's "The Siege" was such a great novel about this subject and it did not go on for 635 pages like this one did. And the love story in this novel was nauseating, I thought. I did not have to read pages and pages and pages of kissing, caressing, fondling, etc. to get a thrill.
This book was just too long and to me, too trite.
Can't wait to start my new book. Hopefully, I will enjoy more.