ĭucky, the titular Grand Duchess, is Princess Victoria Melita – through her father she’s one of Queen Victoria’s many granddaughters but through her mother she’s a granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II. This was nothing more than a poorly written joke. If it is none of these things then I will hate it.

I want my historical fiction to be well researched with developed characters and a plot line that is just as developed. If I remember correctly in the first ten pages we have two princesses (in the Victorian Age) talking about how babies are made where the man 'inserts his pee pee into you' and 'it creates a baby that you then pop out'. The language of this book was just awful. You can't write historical fiction if you have absolutely no idea or appreciation for history or for the historical figures being represented in your book. The true can be said in historical fiction. If you write shitty fanfiction it's because you have no understanding or appreciation for the canon characters and how they are represented in the canon.

You can't write fanfiction if you don't understand the canon that you are writing for. If there's any historical figures present in the story, then the author must conduct research into the characters of these historical persons because historical fiction is just like fanfiction. In order to have a historical fiction novel, the author must research into the time their book is set in. You can't just write a book about Melita and drop her name into it expecting us to appreciate the fact that it is a historical fiction novel because 'oh look, there's the name of a famous historical figure in it!' Laurie Graham needs to know that there is a lot more to do in historical fiction that doing a two second google search into the names of the royal family at the time and inserting poorly developed cardboard cutouts of the characters. This is the same with all the historical figures that are being represented in this shit literature. As a matter of fact, this character has stolen the historical figure's name and is posing as the woman. The main character of this book (Victoria Melita) is disgusting. Her writing style is lacking and the way quality of writing in this book is abysmal. This author doesn't know anything about history or how to conduct the most simple of research into the periods she writes for. Hatred isn't even a strong enough word to describe just how much I loathed this book.

The grand duchess of nowhere