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Title	:	Gemini (The House of Niccolò #8)
Author	:	Dorothy Dunnett
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 672 pages
Published	:	May 8th 2001 by Vintage (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Scotland

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Scotland, 1477: Nicholas de Fleury, former banker and merchant, has re-appeared in the land that, four years earlier, he had brought very close to ruin in the course of an intense commercial and personal war with secret enemies--and, indeed, with his clever wife Gelis.

Now the opportunity for redemption is at hand, but Nicholas soon finds himself pursuing his objectives amid a complex, corrosive power struggle centering on the Scottish royal family but closely involving the powerful merchants of Edinburgh, the gentry, the clergy, the English (ever seeking an excuse to pounce on their neighbor to the north), the French, the Burgundians. His presence soon draws Gelis and their son Jodi to Scotland, as well as Nicholas's companions and subordinates in many a past endeavor--Dr. Tobias and his wife Clémence, Mick Crackbene, John le Grant, and Andro Wodman among them. Here, too, Nicholas meets again with others who have had an influence, for good or evil, in his life: King James III of Scotland and his rebellious siblings; the St. Pols: Jordan, Simon, and young Henry; Mistress Bel of Cuthilgurdy and David de Salmeton; Anselm Adorne and Kathi his niece. Caught up in, and sometimes molding, the course of great events, Nicholas exhibits by turns the fierce silence with which he masks his secrets, and the explosive, willful gaiety that binds men, women, and children to him. And as the secrets of his birth and heritage come to light, Nicholas has to decide whether he desires to establish a future in Scotland for himself and his family, and a home for his descendants.

Gemini brings to a dazzling conclusion Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolò series (synopsized in this volume), in which this peerless novelist has vividly re-created the dramatic, flamboyant world of the early Renaissance in historical writing of scrupulous authenticity and in the entrancing portrait of her visionary hero. Now, in a book infused with wit and poetry, emotion and humor, action and mystery, she brings Nicholas de Fleury at last to choose his heart's home, where he can exercise all his skills as an advisor to kings and statesmen, as a husband, a father, and a leader of men--and where, perhaps, we will discern a connection between him and that other remarkable personality, Francis Crawford, whose exploits Lady Dunnett recorded so memorably in The Lymond Chronicles.

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Original Title:	Gemini (The House of Niccolo, #8)
ISBN:	0375708561 (ISBN13: 9780375708565)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The House of Niccolò #8

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Ah. You know that moment when you read the last page of a book, and you gently close it (or, uh, switch off your electronic reading device of choice) and you breathe out a long breath and you just have to sit there for five or ten minutes smiling and not thinking much, but just quietly hanging on to the last threads of it? Yeah.So that's the Dunnett, then. These last two books aren't perfect -- Gemini, in particular, spends a lot of to-ing and fro-ing on petty politics that I just didn't care

Was; and is; and will be. What more could you want from the last book of a series if not a final like this? During this long journey with Nicholas I always tried to imagine what would happen next, how it would end up for this guy that from being a dyer makes his way in the world until he gets to own a bank, a trade network and a dense array of friends and enemies. Probably what made me fall in love with Dorothy Dunnett lies in her ability to surprise, to let me open-mouthed to contemplate the

Fantastic conclusion to the 8-book House of Niccolo series. By far one of my favorite series: extremely well-written historical fiction combined with adventure, comedy, drama, and some sort of mystery and twist in every book. It took me over a year to read House of Niccolo (and before that another 6 months or so to read Dunnett's first series The Lymond Chronicles), so for about 2 years I have been enthralled by this world that Dunnett created, about two ordinary men doing extraordinary things

As always when I finish a Dunnett book - and particularly so with the last of the series - I want to go back and read all the clues I missed, immerse myself still in the world of the past that has now fallen into clearer detail with the revelations of the final few chapters. But the books - while absorbing - are too large an undertaking to casually re-read. Dunnett's fondness for her native Scotland does bleed through this book and the links to Lymond become clearer and more insistent but it

FIVE MILLION STARSI cannot praise this series enough. I cannot get over how the plot all came together in the most rewarding, cathartic emotionally and mentally satisfying way. Dunnett is a joy to read.

My least favorite of Dunnett's books, but still one you must read if you love her writing. This one is more concerned with intricate Scottish genealogy and politics than the others, and it bogs down the plot. At times, I blanked out or skimmed portions to get to the next plot point. This is very odd for me, because I love Dunnett's writing! I also felt like Gelis took too much of a backseat here, after playing such a big part in the other books. But the whole book felt like a bit of an

As expected, I'm a little bereft. This was the end of the 2 fabulous Dunnett series for me. I'm so sorry she's gone. Brilliant and made me want to launch right back into the Lymond series.