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Queens' Play: Second in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles
Queens' Play: Second in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles | Dorothy Dunnett
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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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Therewillbebooks
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New episode just posted! This week we're talking Matt's chili recipe, reading emails, shouting out used bookstores, picking books to read in January, and discussing the great Olga Tokarczuk novel, “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.“ Just an overall jam-packed episode. Enjoy!

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing 📚 2y
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LeslieO
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty!! 💗💗 3y
Eggs Lovely photo 🖤🕊🖤 3y
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LeslieO
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Got my first three volumes of the new paperback Lymond Chronicles. They are pretty, oversized and have decent sized print. Good additions to all my other versions of this series. #DorothyDunnett

rubyslippersreads These are still on my TBR list. 😊 5y
LeahBergen Lovely! I‘m so glad they redid these for others to discover. 😍 5y
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Oblomov26
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Lymond accompanies Mary of Guise to the French court initially in disguise and then as herald to defuse a murder plot on a young Mary Queen of Scots. Overall a good second book in the series, which focusses on court politics. Lymond remains an outrageous Mary Sue, being a great fighter, a master musician an expert in intrigue and espionage, yet despite this remains a character with some emotional failings. A fun historically accurate story.

LeahBergen I liked this one. 👍🏻 6y
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jenniferw88
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Giving myself permission to bail as I've got too many books I'd rather be reading than this one... let's just hope I understand what's going on in book 3!

BarbaraJean The friend who initially got me into this series wouldn‘t lend me Queens‘ Play—she made me go from Game of Kings to Disorderly Knights and told me I wouldn‘t be missing anything crucial! I loved the series, but still haven‘t gone back to read this one. 😏 (edited) 7y
jenniferw88 @BarbaraJean Thanks - good to know! 7y
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rabbitprincess
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A nail-biting second book for our Lymond. Also hurray for seeing more of Mary, Queen of Scots. 😊 I love this series. Adding the third book to next year's reading pool!

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Oh myyyyy!
#litsyafterdark 😂😂😂

melrailey Well... 7y
rabbitprincess @melrailey It nearly caused catastrophic snorting out loud on the bus 😂 7y
Laura317 Wait. What!? I had to reread that three times to make sure I understood what I was reading. 😂 7y
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rabbitprincess @Laura317 😂😂😂 So did I! I think it's the flushed face that makes it extra awkward 😂😂😂 7y
LeahBergen At intervals? Wow. He's got some stamina. 😆 7y
rabbitprincess @LeahBergen LOL! 😂😆 7y
AmandaL 😂 7y
rabbitprincess @AmandaL 😆😳😂 7y
quietlycuriouskate That's quite some dispatch! 7y
rwmg I think the contents of this dispatch need to be made public 7y
rabbitprincess @rwmg LOL at work 😂😂 7y
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rabbitprincess

Me: What should I read next after bailing on The Case of the Dangerous Dowager?
Also me: QUEENS' PLAY
Me: But I already have a historical novel in my purse.
Also me: Who cares! I've been wanting to read this off and on for months.
Me: Fine. Queens' Play it is. But don't get mad at me when you feel like this bus book is taking forever.

rubyslippersreads This series has been on my TBR list for ages. 7y
shanaqui I so need to get back to my project of reading Dorothy Dunnet's work. I grew up with my mum and grandma devouring them and swapping them whenever we went to visit! 7y
LeahBergen I LOVE the Lymond Chronicles. ❤️ 7y
rabbitprincess @rubyslippersreads It's really good. Very meaty! @shanaqui That's awesome! @LeahBergen So far so good with the second book! 7y
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Here is the trade paperback set of The Lymond Chronicles that I own, @LeslieO (and the aforementioned Queens' Play cover 😉). And for any other Litsy historical fiction fans out there, this series is highly recommended!

Jess_Read_This 😍I love the spines on these! 8y
rabbitprincess I have The Disorderly Knights in that edition 😊 8y
LeslieO So pretty! I want those, too! 8y
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LauraBeth Did someone say historical fiction 👂I love these covers! 8y
LeahBergen @rabbitprincess 👏🏻👏🏻 8y
LeahBergen @LeslieO 😂😂 8y
LeahBergen @LauraBeth They are really well-crafted, intelligent historical fiction. 8y
Kkhalifeh I have these in my TBR!!! Your editions are much prettier though.... 8y
LeahBergen @Kkhalifeh It's such a good series! 8y
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LeslieO
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I think my Dunnetts are the only other books I can play #samebookdifferentcover with. #aprilbookshowers

LeahBergen Oooo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8y
LeslieO @LeahBergen I knew you'd like this! I couldn't show Game of Kings because my hardcover copy (that friends got me in London in 1977) was loaned out and never returned. ☹️ 8y
LeahBergen Noooo! 😩 8y
LeahBergen I only have the trade paperback editions of the Lymond series but my Queens' Play cover is different from all of these. 😂 I do have most of the Niccolo series (and King Hereafter) in hardcover, though. 👍🏼 8y
LeslieO Ooooooo @LeahBergen You'll have to post your Queen's Play sometime. I have 3 sets of Lymond and 2 of Niccolo (1 HC , 1 PB) 8y
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Yamich49
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Ahhh this was better than the first one and SO GOOD. I haven't had a lot of time for reading this week but the little time I've had has been spent in Lymond's world and I don't regret it one bit. These books are full of intrigue, nonstop twists and turns and wonderfully complex characters. This second installment built beautifully on the first and I'm sure it will only continue to get better. This will make you laugh, cry and cry out in shock. ❤

LeahBergen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8y
BookishFeminist Completely irrelevant but just wanted to let you know this is up in Netgalley for request 👀 8y
Yamich49 @BookishFeminist Ahhhh! *sprints over to Netgalley to press the request button so hard* 🙄🙄🙄Do you think they will somehow intuit how much I love BAS and ignore the many reviews I've yet to post for previously granted books?? 👀 8y
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I think Lymond might make his way onto the naughty list on occasion 😇😏😈

#seasonsreadings2016

LeahBergen 👏🏻👏🏻 8y
rabbitprincess @LeahBergen This is in my 2017 pile and I am really looking forward to reading it 😄 8y
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A good reminder to be kind. #somethingforsept

RealLifeReading That's lovely! 8y
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