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white_hart) wrote2016-01-05 08:57 pm
white_hart) wrote2016-01-05 08:57 pm
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Having just finished Pawn in Frankincense I am now flailing about incoherently. So many twists and turns and doublings-back of plot! So many things that seemed to so obviously be one thing, only to turn out to be something completely different!
OK, this was not my first Dorothy Dunnett so I wasn't exactly surprised. Just a bit breathtaken at the sheer extent of it.
Also, the chess game managed to be even more nailbiting than the courtroom scene/card game in The Game of Kings, and I didn't even think that was possible. And more emotionally devastating than the deaths of Christian Stewart in The Game of Kings and Will and Wat Scott in The Disorderly Knights, and those had me staring at the page in disbelief. And, obviously, I am left with far more questions than answers. With only two more Lymond books to go (admittedly, two very substantial books) I do wonder whether it's even possible to tie everything up neatly.
In any case, although I have all the books on my Kindle already, I think I need to read something easier and much, much fluffier next. Something where the protagonists aren't enmeshed in betrayal and torture and forced to make heartbreaking, impossible choices. Possibly Wodehouse, though I'm not sure that's quite it; something along those lines, anyway.
I did actually find a copy of the next book in the Oxfam bookshop yesterday lunchtime, but given the utter atrociousness of its cover I'm very glad I already have them all on Kindle...
OK, this was not my first Dorothy Dunnett so I wasn't exactly surprised. Just a bit breathtaken at the sheer extent of it.
Also, the chess game managed to be even more nailbiting than the courtroom scene/card game in The Game of Kings, and I didn't even think that was possible. And more emotionally devastating than the deaths of Christian Stewart in The Game of Kings and Will and Wat Scott in The Disorderly Knights, and those had me staring at the page in disbelief. And, obviously, I am left with far more questions than answers. With only two more Lymond books to go (admittedly, two very substantial books) I do wonder whether it's even possible to tie everything up neatly.
In any case, although I have all the books on my Kindle already, I think I need to read something easier and much, much fluffier next. Something where the protagonists aren't enmeshed in betrayal and torture and forced to make heartbreaking, impossible choices. Possibly Wodehouse, though I'm not sure that's quite it; something along those lines, anyway.
I did actually find a copy of the next book in the Oxfam bookshop yesterday lunchtime, but given the utter atrociousness of its cover I'm very glad I already have them all on Kindle...