Top 10 Worst Wicked Rulers is a joke - or at least it should be. Henry VIII? Cleopatra? The only one of this bunch that actually belongs in the category is Nero. Apparently, Fiona MacDonald has lived such a plush life, she is completely clueless about the atrocities committed on this planet by wicked despots. Or maybe the success of the "You wouldn't want to be..." series has rendered her either greedy or insane. 
 Is she this stunningly ignorant and does she want children to be the same? Has she never read of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot or Idi Amin? Is she unaware of the atrocities of Kim Jung-Il or the tripartite rulers of the Ottoman whose actions against the Armenians gave us the word genocide? What of Hilter or Ivan the Terrible or Xerxes I? And if MacDonald has such incredible gaps in her education, what of the illustrator, editors and publishers of this factually careless title? 
 Or is this an attempt to "kid-a-fy" a gruesome, violent, topic of listing the world's worst rulers? Which leads to the weighty inquiry of: 
 WHY WAS THIS BOOK EVER PUBLISHED?! 
 If only I could rate it 0 stars. Do not buy this ridiculous book.