Sharade’s Reviews > The Game of Kings > Status Update

Slightly tipsy but wondering if the constant references to poetry and the classics would be as annoying back then as references to Tumblr posts are to us now.
Also I do recommend experiencing Dunnett after one cocktail.

And here we go again.
Whenever I feel like learning a new language I crack up this book so I can be humbled about my ability to understand *fucking English* in the first place.

Damn but "are you so shorts on rods that you must despoil young trees, so short on stones that you need to walk the very graveyard for them?" slaps SO fucking much.

I just love that Sybilla manages to match her younger son in plotting. Truly his Mama's boy 🥹🥹

"preserving someone from the ills of old age" HAS to be the funniest way of saying "murdering them dead"

Man I forgot how MOST of book 1 is Francis playing elaborate pranks on his elder brother. Amazing.

If you're ever annoyed by a younger sibling place a prayer to Richard, patron saint of bullied older siblings. That poor poor man. Nobody deserves Lymond as a brother.