This was really something of a tour de force by Dunnett. I'm still certain that I missed a significant percentage of the plot, and even more of the literary, historical and linguistic allusions. I really did enjoy this book, and will definitely read on in the series. Dunnett is a fearless writer ...
Series: The Lymond Chronicles #1 How to describe Game of Kings? The main character Lymond, aka Francis Crawford, is nastier than a rogue: he’s an outlaw with his own band of men who steal from the rich and give it to themselves, more or less. These are unsettled times, to put it mildly, with Engla...
3.5 stars, and, yes, I wish that I could justify more.I wanted to love this book. With the rest of the series already sitting on my shelf in the assumption that I would love it, imagine my surprise when I had to force myself to keep reading after the first 50 pages. If it hadn't come so highly recom...
What a wonderful book. Once one gets used to Dunnett's flowers language (which absolutely suits the book)one is transported into a world that's a combination of Sir Walter Scott and every 1950's Hollywood costumed historical film one has ever seen. All the clichés are there: drinking contests, trial...
It took me a while to warm to this novel of 16th Century Scotland, the first in a series, but one that could stand alone. I wouldn't call it a slog exactly--it's never dull, but it is at times difficult. It's written in omniscient with a lot of archaic vocabulary and spelling, Scottish dialect, snat...
Wow.I hadn't done that in a while. Staying up all night with a book is a pleasure when you have the morning to sleep in, not when your alarm rings before you've read the last page and you still haven't gone to bed. Last time I stayed up with a book - to the last page of a book - was in March, with (...
“I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.”Bold words from a bold man. Francis Crawford of Lymond has been accused of the most nefarious things: deceit, treachery, rape, drunkenness, murder,and just so he will for sure hang...trea...
I'm finding it difficult to form words for how much I loved every awesome, intrigue-laden, sometimes impenetrable inch of this book. It's fitting that it was the 100th book I finished this year. It made me exclaim aloud. It made me cry multiple times. Even though I know there are five other books ab...
This is one of the few books I happily reread. Stylistically, the writing is beautiful, and as I read, I feel like I'm dealing with a storyteller who is testing my mind. And then there's the hero. I have to admit that Francis Crawford of Lymond was probably my first big book crush - Dorothy Dunnett ...
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