Title: "A Fatal Passion" - Much Ado About Nothing
Product review: Although the title suggests otherwise, this is not a particularly insightful or thought-provoking biography. Victoria Melita is portrayed by Michael John Sullivan as neither particularly human or even that interesting, but as a saint victimized by just about every one in her royal family tree: from her grandmother Queen Victoria, to her mother the Duchess of Edinburgh, to Czar Nicholas and Czarina Alexandra, her cousin and sister-in-law, to Ernie, her first husband and cousin, and Kirill, her second husband and cousin. As a biography, it is lopsided and clearly written not to offended Victoria Melita's descendants, and perhaps to further their claim to the Russian throne, as the final sentences of the book suggest. With that in mind, it probably would have made a better historical novel. Michael John Sullivan is a good writer, but a more balanced approach would have made this biography more palatable.
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