The Game of Kings

I read Dorothy Dunnett! I'd seen her books highly recommended so I wanted to check them out. I did not get on with the Macbeth one, but I tried again with the Lymond Chronicles. The start was rocky again (Lymond seemed a horrible character to begin with, and I was confused by the history and military strategy) but after a while I finally got into it. The plot remained confusing to me, but I became more engaged with the characters, and it was lovely to see Richard and Lymond finally coming to an understanding. I will try the next in the series and maybe it will be more comprehensible now that I have some orientation.

I didn't feel that the foreign quotations were a huge impediment to understanding, although it would be nice to have a reference with the translations. The outrageously florid style could have been irritating, but somehow it worked and gave a great flair to what otherwise could have been quite a dull and dreary passage of history. Maybe that's why these books are so beloved.