Petronia

I think the other thing about the Lymond series as Dunnett's juvenilia is that it is sooo adolescent. In the best possible way, but it's id fic, and you have to surrender yourself to it, just ride the waves of Lymond's ineffable inner pain, and all the High Drama. Yawning pit of hurt/comfort and raging river of narrative logic is a great way of putting it. There is so much more coming, lol.