Oonagh was an interesting character but ultimately I found her a little incompetent though in no way deserving what happened to her and I wish she could have lived a happy long life instead.
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@bokemonpie.bsky.socialOonagh was an interesting character but ultimately I found her a little incompetent though in no way deserving what happened to her and I wish she could have lived a happy long life instead.
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialPrediction w Jerott: a good person, a good fighter, prob not analytically intelligent enough to survive and thrive in the viper's den of european nobility court politics and games. I can already tell Marthe and him don't match.
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialMarthe is a good character. She is a way for the reader to learn more about 16th century sailing maneuvers and battle techniques. As she explains to Philippa, the reader learns too.
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialI love how Dunnett writes dialogue scenes where characters ask questions and others provide answers, it makes learning so easy! Early on in PiF.
Beautiful lesson in crafting good dialogue and catching readers up on plot.
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialAlrighty done w Disorderly Knights and now onto Pawn in Frankincense. I hope to be ready to make my final verdict on the fandom's hottest topic.
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialThe fight scenes feel knitted together with actions taken by one character and responded to by the opponent. The construction is exquisite. Almost done w Disorderly Knights.
DD will teach you how to write fight scenes.
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialJerott is so exceptionally adorable and stupid that it's one more reason why I think his reaction during book 4 is one more thing I deposit as evidence of which child belongs to whom.
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialLymond does not want you to care about him. He has his own life. Thus I am desperately chasing him all the time. Compare this to stories where protagonists hide nothing.
as Larry David says, 'you're always attracted to someone who doesn't want you, right?'
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialmy conspiracy theory about what happens after #LymondChronicles ends: Lymond is going to realize he has way more sexual experience than Philippa and just lets her go wild to make up for it
that is an ao3 story idea I'll have tucked away in my notes
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialI appreciate how Dunnett holds us in a state of temporary incoherence with her storytelling and rewards us with explanation later on. Develops reader trust and teaches readers how to write and build similar rapport w their readers.
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialReading Lymond makes reading smut feel more "meh" bc now I'm demanding every mmc have the appealing "10 steps ahead with many renaissance talents" thing and it's just not a reasonable ask of that genre
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialWell there is nothing quite like reading a historical fiction series from the 60s where the author proudly tells the reader our main guy declares himself a jungle cat in bed during the year of 2026 at 2am on a Friday is there.
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialI do not believe Dragut was pleased with Oonagh's baby being branded. Hence why the wife who ordered it was sold off.
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialyou can kind of tell upon a closer read that Joleta is very trained on how to seduce men by pretending to not know how to seduce them, it's too choreographed
@bokemonpie.bsky.socialDD uses the observations of other characters to help the reader develop impressions.
Passages of Jerott training at st mary's: the drills and exhaustion and skill. Then Richard comes and is startled and is like Lymond these men are too good, what are you planning to do?