Yes, these are the perfect books to take on a trip: gripping, meaty, and dense enough to take a comparatively long time to read. Queen's Play was much easier to read, and better-written, or at least less over-written and unnecessarily confusing, than A Game of Kings. Lymond showed faint traces of being human, yay, and better yet, screwed up in a way which did not later turn out to be part of his Sekrit Plan.
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