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The Disorderly Knights, by Dorothy Dunnett
Excellent book, which does a great job of seriously raising the stakes in the series -- it works beautifully as a midpoint. My only problem with it, in fact, is that I read the back cover description, which is an ENORMOUS SPOILER like OMG. Seriously: if you ever plan to read this book, don't read the back cover.
Next up in queue, of course, are the remaining 3 Lymond Chronicles (halfway through Pawn in Frankincense now), followed by Alexa's loaned copy of To Say Nothing of the Dog, followed by Lis's loaned copy of Ash: A Secret History.
I suppose you could also count the volume of Blame! that I read last night, but I wouldn't, since a) manga volumes take like 40 minutes to read at most, and b) this one took even less time than that since there was i) practically no dialogue at all and ii) I couldn't make head or tails of most of the artwork anyway. Excellent atmosphere, but I literally have no clue what's going on.
Anyway, in related news: Lymond is totally Loki. Like, not just in the sense that he's obviously a brilliant trickster-figure that everybody thinks is evil. This clicked into place for me a few nights back, and I realize now that there are so many parallels and comparisons that it cannot possibly be accidental. To phrase this without any spoilers: I'm now wondering whether the MacGuffin of Pawn will turn out to play a parallel role to its counterpart in Norse mythology.
Excellent book, which does a great job of seriously raising the stakes in the series -- it works beautifully as a midpoint. My only problem with it, in fact, is that I read the back cover description, which is an ENORMOUS SPOILER like OMG. Seriously: if you ever plan to read this book, don't read the back cover.
Next up in queue, of course, are the remaining 3 Lymond Chronicles (halfway through Pawn in Frankincense now), followed by Alexa's loaned copy of To Say Nothing of the Dog, followed by Lis's loaned copy of Ash: A Secret History.
I suppose you could also count the volume of Blame! that I read last night, but I wouldn't, since a) manga volumes take like 40 minutes to read at most, and b) this one took even less time than that since there was i) practically no dialogue at all and ii) I couldn't make head or tails of most of the artwork anyway. Excellent atmosphere, but I literally have no clue what's going on.
Anyway, in related news: Lymond is totally Loki. Like, not just in the sense that he's obviously a brilliant trickster-figure that everybody thinks is evil. This clicked into place for me a few nights back, and I realize now that there are so many parallels and comparisons that it cannot possibly be accidental. To phrase this without any spoilers: I'm now wondering whether the MacGuffin of Pawn will turn out to play a parallel role to its counterpart in Norse mythology.
