Dorothy Dunnett
Paperback | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 4.46 | 3923 Users | 268 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Queens' Play |
| ISBN: | 067977744X (ISBN13: 9780679777441) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Lymond Chronicles #2 |
| Characters: | Henri II of France, Anne de Montmorency, Diane de Poitiers, François de Guise, Mary of Guise, Queen of Scots, Mary, Queen of Scots, Catherine de' Medici, Francis Crawford of Lymond, Thomas Erskine, Richard Crawford, Phelim O'LiamRoe, Piedar Dooly, Robin Stewart |
| Setting: | France,1550 London, England(United Kingdom) |
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For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Second in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Queen's Play follows Frances Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots. Though she is only a little girl, the Queen is already the object of malicious intrigues that extend from her native country to the court of France. It is to France that Lymond must travel, exercising his sword hand and his agile wit while also undertaking the most unlikely of masquerades, all to make sure that his charge's royal person stays intact.
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| Title | : | Queens' Play (The Lymond Chronicles #2) |
| Author | : | Dorothy Dunnett |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | April 29th 1997 by Vintage (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Scotland. Adventure. France. Literature. 16th Century |
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Ratings: 4.46 From 3923 Users | 268 ReviewsDiscuss Regarding Books Queens' Play (The Lymond Chronicles #2)
I bumped my initial 4-star rating to 5, since this book was still making me think, and shake my head in wonder, several days after I finished reading it.Francis Crawford of Lymond has been summoned by the Dowager Queen of Scotland, who is temporarily living in France with the 7 year old Mary Queen of Scots, to come to France to protect the young queen from an unknown person who is trying to assassinate her. The Dowager Queen, an experienced and canny old politician, thinks she knows exactly howc'est vraiment magnifiqueP.S: Lymond was his usual spectacular self (one expects no less from him) but the star of the show was Phelim O'LiamRoe 💖
I bumped my initial 4-star rating to 5, since this book was still making me think, and shake my head in wonder, several days after I finished reading it.Francis Crawford of Lymond has been summoned by the Dowager Queen of Scotland, who is temporarily living in France with the 7 year old Mary Queen of Scots, to come to France to protect the young queen from an unknown person who is trying to assassinate her. The Dowager Queen, an experienced and canny old politician, thinks she knows exactly how
Full disclosure. I ignored a total of 17 phone calls while reading this book, 6 of them from friends and 11 from my boyfriend, who is still sulking. I stayed up until 4 in the morning for two nights in a row to finish. I literally unplugged and carried the laptop with me into the bathroom (I had an ebook version) so that I could continue, reading unabated, while flossing and brushing my teeth. A third of the way through, I ordered books four and five from Amazon.com, an unprecedented show of
Having swallowed two of Dunnett's in a matter of weeks, some thoughts following on my review of A Game of Kings.The world-building remains spectacular, even more so in the second book than in the first. The court of Henri II of France appears as one of the wonders of early early modernity. From the modernity side, it's equipped with a startling array of cosmopolitan beasties (lots of elephant action, and at one crucial juncture, a cheetah) and the beginnings of a reliable explosives culture.
Second reading June 2016 via audio book, as with TGoK made me love it even more!original review:I still think Francis Crawford of Lymond, the Master of Culter, is basically Lord Flashheart from Blackadder in subtler guise. But now, now he actually seems even more over the top than that.In Queens' Play, the second of the six Lymond Chronicles, Lymond is amuck in France at the behest of the Scottish Dowager Queen Mother, Mary de Guise, whose seven-year-old daughter Mary, Queen of Scots, is being
Queens' Play, in which young Francis Crawford of Lymond continues in a much more visible manner the dramatic self-flagellation which was mostly hidden in the first book, The Game of Kings, is a highly satisfying book. Dorothy Dunnett, through her tortured too-brilliant Lymond, leaves gilded bread crumbs for us to follow through a labyrinthine plot.Part of the fun of reading Lymond is being as amazed at his language as everyone but his mother is in the book. I do not recommend reading this for
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