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The Spring of the Ram (Hardcover)

by Dorothy Dunnett (Author)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Buccaneer Books Inc; Reprint edition (31 Dec 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0899669646
  • ISBN-13: 978-0899669649
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,668,960 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars 2nd book in the House of Niccolo series, 18 Jun 2008
By Roman Clodia (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Spring of the Ram (The House of Niccolo) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the second volume of Dunnett's second great series built around the enigmatic Nicholas, once a dyer's apprentice in Bruges, and now the leader of a trading company setting up business in Trebizond, the last outpost of the Byzantine empire, on behalf of the Medici.

After the domestic beginning of the series (Niccolo Rising) this allows Nicholas, still only 20, to spread his wings and try his skills in a wider world. But he is as dangerous as the sphere in which he is entering, and his friends/watchers don't know whether to trust him, cage him, or follow him.

Full of intrigue, ambiguities, plot-lines, marvellous characters and lush writing, Dunnett does this like no-one else. Sophisticated and convoluted plots mean you have to read her books more than once to understand the intricacies of the story, but as any of her fans will say, that's no hardship. She also manages like almost no-one else to wrong-foot the reader so that just when you think you know what's happening and can guess the next event Dunnett pulls out a magnificent and audacious turn in the story that leaves you breathless but which is so logical and right that you can't imagine why you didn't see it coming. The end of this novel is like that, and yet so beautifully written that the the tension between what is happening and the way it's written is just stunning. Get the next volume before you read the end (Race of Scorpions) as you won't be able to wait to see where Nicholas goes next.

A far cry from the blander and easier historical fiction of a Gregory or Chadwick, this is fiction for adults.
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