All Comments on 'The Girl with No Name Ch. 18'

The Grand Duke is a total ass and an enormous fraud. He is a sanctimonious rapist, and a lazy, manipulative thief. He hurts and belittles the women off whose personal pain, intelligence and achievements he has stolen for his own glorification, 'honour' and fame. He punishes others for hubris when he is the lowest, most self-aggrandising, unworthy, worst criminal of all. He has no honour.

Although this is erotic fiction, it is wonderful historical fiction. I love it. Way to go!

The Grand Duke is modeled after several real-life leaders that existed in the mid to late-1700's who were known as "enlightened despots", If you study history, his behavior is no worse than rulers such as Catherine the Great and Frederick the Great. The point that I'm making with the character is that during his lifetime he was an intelligent leader for his nation but thoroughly vile as a person. Like his real-life contemporaries, the Grand Duke of Danubia will be remembered as a hero because of his legal and military accomplishments while the "inconvenient truths" about his personal behavior will be forgotten or ignored. Part of the historian Maritza's purpose in telling Danka's story is to portray a ruler considered as a national hero by the Danubians in a more nuanced and accurate manner.

This is a brilliant historical fiction that could very well be fact. Defo worth a solid 5 stars