I recently read Michael and Natasha and really enjoyed it, but I agree with another poster in the previous thread that stated that the authors seemed to be under Natasha's spell. She strikes me as one of those people you either love or you hate ... I tend to lean toward the latter. She strikes me as being out for what she could get and if she could improve her social standing by changing husbands, so be it. I really think she would have dumped Michael for Dmitri Pavlovich if there had been any percentage in it, but she was already married to a brother of the Tsar and there was nowhere to go but down.