I love this! I'm a huge fan of both series (was just re-re-reading GoK yesterday), and always had fun picking up the similarities. You're right--it's really hard to track down people who've read both. Dunnett, especially, is such a specific sort of readership...
I've always enjoyed how much both Dunnett and MWT trust the reader. They really don't cut you any slack. As someone else pointed out, King of Attolia is the one that reminds me most strongly of Dunnett (particularly GoK), as we're watching through a naive external character (Costis/Will)- who serves in some ways as a stand-in for the reader - as they work their way through a series of conflicting feelings of their brilliant leader. And of course, we know there's a complicated political endgame, and we suspect that neither Gen nor Lymond is as foolish/nasty as they seem, but it takes us a long time to realize what they're up to...
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Date: 6/30/17 03:53 pm (UTC)I've always enjoyed how much both Dunnett and MWT trust the reader. They really don't cut you any slack. As someone else pointed out, King of Attolia is the one that reminds me most strongly of Dunnett (particularly GoK), as we're watching through a naive external character (Costis/Will)- who serves in some ways as a stand-in for the reader - as they work their way through a series of conflicting feelings of their brilliant leader. And of course, we know there's a complicated political endgame, and we suspect that neither Gen nor Lymond is as foolish/nasty as they seem, but it takes us a long time to realize what they're up to...