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Title	:	Queens' Play (The Lymond Chronicles #2)
Author	:	Dorothy Dunnett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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

Queens' Play (The Lymond Chronicles #2)

Dorothy Dunnett

Paperback | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 4.46 | 3923 Users | 268 Reviews

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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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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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new word I've learned from this book: An ollave of the highest grade is professor, singer, poet, all in the one. His songs and tales are of battles and voyages, of tragedies and adventures, of cattle raids and preyings, of forays, hostings, courtships and elopements, hidings and destructions, sieges and feasts and slaughters; and you'd rather listen to a man killing a pig than hear half of them through. After the epic struggle to clear his name in Scotland, you would think Francis Lymond

Frustrating, absorbing and intensely emotional, I can't stop thinking about this bookLymond is back, this time in France, hanging out in disguise in the most extravagant and decadent court in 16 c Europe, trying to protect the young Mary queen of scots. The story starts with a bang, there are many twists and turns and Dorothy Dunnett had me wrong footed right form the start. Fans of the main character may be a little disappointed with the first half of the book as Lymond is deep in disguise and

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

Hero worship....It's the only oozing emotion I seem able to inspire.Lymond certainly does inspire for all his many talents, his swashbuckling and his wit. Yet, essentially, we find Lymond physically and mentally wreaked many times, reduced to self-loathing. It's stated by one female character that Lymond has no capacity to love but Dunnett skillfully shows in little snatches that perhaps Lymond loves too hard. He certainly loves his seven year old queen Mary of Scots. Hence to France, in

So I didn't end up enjoying this one as much as I did the first. I miss the characters from the first book as only a few of them were present in this one. I also miss the dynamic of Lymond and his group of ruffians. This was very much a book based on politics and life in the French courts. Whilst I still loved Lymond, he was also very different in this book. He was much more open and seemingly a little more vulnerable. His acting skills were out in full force and it was a lot of fun waiting to

The joy to read a book by someone who is clever and witty. Yes, the fact that the main characters address each other often in Renaissance quotes, refer to Greek and Latin and that large passages are in untranslated French do not deter me from this book. I also have to look up words which does not happen to me normally. The books bewitch me like hardly any other. Firmly living in the 16th century now.

Queen's Play deepened my belief that Dunnett was writing the Lymond Chronicles just for me. Because not only did it have the same wonderful dialogue and attention to historical detail, the same wit and Byzantine plotting as The Game of Kings, this one had Irish characters. Or, to be more specific, it had Phelim O'LiamRoe, who just happens to be Prince of the exact part of Ireland I come from. My tiny, historically unimportant part of Ireland.I think Trin can attest to the 'oh my god for