Three by Dorothy Dunnett
Mar. 16th, 2007 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyphomandraI’ll save more detailed comments on these until I’ve finished the series. So far, I like the Scottish and Italian settings best, and the astronomer and the make-up artist narrators. All good, twisty, books. Excellent use of settings without ever making the reader feel like they’ve wandered into a guidebook with an unusually high body count, great suspense sequences, and a fascinating look at that time period between sexual freedom and women’s liberation.
The west of Scotland, and the most sailing of all the books so far. Great storm sequence with mutually distrusting people being forced to work together.
A younger, more careless heroine - someone who's connected, if on the fringes, to wealth and power. Nighttime processions and modern art.
Balloons as a surprisingly convincing object of menace. A narrator with an intellectual job, and skills; and Italy.
The west of Scotland, and the most sailing of all the books so far. Great storm sequence with mutually distrusting people being forced to work together.
A younger, more careless heroine - someone who's connected, if on the fringes, to wealth and power. Nighttime processions and modern art.
Balloons as a surprisingly convincing object of menace. A narrator with an intellectual job, and skills; and Italy.
