This is the fictionalized tale of Rasputin’s last week, as told by his daughter. It didn’t do much for me, because the story seemed overly emotional and simplified. The author did a pretty good job of weaving in historical information in a way that didn’t seem too clunky, but he did it at the expense of detail. I would have preferred an actual biography. The most interesting part of the book was the afterward that explained what happened to the real people involved after the events depicted in the novel.