Status Updates From Scaramouche the King-Maker

Finally picked Kingmaker back up. Had an enormous break. Wasn't pulling me through the way Scaramouche #1 did. Now with the break I'm enjoying the action that is purely vocabulary this time. It has been fun to jump back in where characters describe using a specific noun or adjective in a sentence as a masterstroke of deception. Do miss Adre Louis going from Lawyer > Scaramouche > Fencing Master of Scaramouche #1.

I actually got much further than my last update before I put Scaramouche, The King Maker, Down. I intend to pick it up again and finish it. It's definitely inferior to the first. Two-thirds in, and I am still "waiting" it felt like. Whereas the first had the three inner books that were so fun to get through.

Always a pleasure to be back in Raphael Sabatinis world. Funny, intelligent and fast paced. So far it is a direct continuation of the ending of Scaramouche which I still remember very well. Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker "I am your father!" Comes to mind 😂. Looking forward to where this goes. The king has just been executed in the French revolution.