Advantages: Well-written, page-turning. Disadvantages: That cover!
...Queen's Play is the second volume in DorothyDunnett's series about one Francis Crawford of Lymond. It's set in the sixteenth century; a time of political intrigue, religious reformation, intellectual debate and scientific discovery. The first book - The Game of Kings - introduced Lymond, second son of a (fictional) Scottish noble family inserted into the (real) events of the time. Lymond is highly intelligent, skilled in verse and music, but in diplomacy and warfare too. He declaims like a dream, he fights like a demon, and he is, of course, a man of honour. And of course too, he is a man of honour which is called into question. The Game of Kings sees him return to Scotland from exile in order to clear his name and save the child Queen Mary from a plot against her.
In Queen's Play we move across the sea from troubled, endangered...
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Advantages: Full of suspense and emotion Disadvantages: Ive finished it!
...Marshmallows for breakfast is the 3rd book I have read by Dorothy Koomson and it is her follow up novel to the successful My Best Friends Girl which I thoroughly enjoyed.
The main character in the story is Kendra Tamale and she has just returned to the UK from Australia. We find out from flashbacks and snippets of information that are fed to us throughout the book that something has happened to her out there and she left the country in a rush. Further to this, something else has happened earlier in her life in the UK and was her reason for moving to Australia in the first place. These secrets' become apparant at the end of the book.
Although these secrets and flashbacks are an integral part of the book and build up the suspense throughout the read, it runs alongside Kendras current life. When Kendra arrives back in the UK she rents...
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20.08.2003
