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[bookelfe]

I am now three-quarters of the way through my epic reread of Dorothy Dunnett's Niccolo books!

Capsule summary of The Unicorn Hunt:Niccolo's newborn baby son is

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[rymenhild]

Oh God, I've read that book. I mean, The Unicorn Hunt. Except its name is Pawn in Frankincense and it has Tragic Human Chess.

Ohhhh Dorothy Dunnett.

[bookelfe]

*cracking up*

To be fair, there is legitimately only one kid this time and it's neither abused NOR in a harem!

On the other hand, there is twice the complicated kind-of-incest. Actually, maybe three times the complicated kind-of-incest. (But no actual incest. (As far as I can tell.))

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[anonymous]

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[nextian]

I am becoming more in awe, by the way, of Dorothy Dunnett's skill at performing astounding amounts of historical research for the purpose of finding the most symbolically angsty place for a confrontation. For example: learning all about the use of blood in Renaissance salt purification, just so she can have Niccolo engineer a murderous confrontation with his possibly!father in a deserted salt house, in a blizzard, over an enormous pit of boiling hot bull's blood. And that is not even the climax of the book! Some other truly exceptional set pieces over these past two books include

[bookelfe]

HAHAHAHA I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. Your Emma vs. Lymond tag is giving me life. (I wanted to reply to your post on Richard, BECAUSE I LOVE RICHARD, except Tumblr defeated me again and I couldn't figure out how. ;___;)

[nextian]

I'M SO SORRY. He's amazing, though. He is the light of my life and these books.