The Duke of Orleans by John Simpson
***
This book (or novella, really--it's 95 pages) is bad. Very, very bad. There is not the slightest vestige of a plot, nor is there conflict. The protagonist has no obstacles to overcome--or any he seems interested in overcoming, either. And the history is so grotesquely wrong that if I had focused on every single error, I would have written a tome that could serve as a doorstop.
The most I can say about this is that it doesn't promote meretricious, offensive or dangerous ideas. Unfortunately, that doesn't make it any better. If you have ever read a tedious and seemingly endless wish-fulfillment story on Fanfiction.net in which Mary Sue or Gary Stu is given everything she or he has ever desired simply because she or he is the epitome of wonderfulness, then you have read this book.
This link will take you to my review at Speak Its Name, the only review site on the web that focuses on m/m historical romance. And yes, the review and the site are worksafe.
Mods? Could we please have a "the only plot is against the readers" tag, a "did not do the research" tag and a "history did not happen this way!" tag?