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Blond, Blue-eyed, Rapacious, and Ployglot

January 16, 2015 by SavageCats Leave a Comment

I stayed up until midnight last night finishing this book.  Not because I couldn’t put it down.  Because I couldn’t wait to put it down and never have to pick it back up again. It’s not that I hated this book.  I just didn’t find the struggle with it rewarding.  I have rarely wanted to love a book more than The Game of Kings.  I’d been hearing for years how amazing the Lymond Chronicles books were, and I really wanted to be counted among those […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Dorothy Dunnett, Lymond Chronicles, The Game of Kings

SavageCats's CBR7 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Dorothy Dunnett, Lymond Chronicles, The Game of Kings ·
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