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Summary: Sure to become a favorite!
Review: This book left me begging for more by the elusive Katherine Neville. Two complex lifetimes cleverly woven into one incredible tale. This was the one book I recommended most highly when in the book selling business. It is on my top ten list of personal all-time favorites. Become a Neville junkie---read the book!!
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Summary: i was so into the book that i missed my stop.
Review: i like her style of writing very much. she was able to keep up the suspense and mystery without losing steam or the reader . i liked the way she could bring us back and forth throught time ,it had my imagination going from colour to black and white. she also in-corporated history into the story .... it made me inquisitive enuough to read up on it.
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Summary: Excellent book! Enjoy it!
Review: Neville really arrives to match history, history of art, and maths to the story that revolves arround a chess service in which is hidden a formula of incredible power... Do you want to take part into the Game? The story takes place in NY, France and in the desert of Algiers... Have fun!
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Summary: There's chess, love, hate, and magic...
Review: I read this book in three days and just couldn't put it down. I would go to bed with it under my pillow so that I wouldn't have to walk to much a distance before I opened it again...IT WAS BRILLIANT. Neville has everything in this book to satisfy all the readers. If you're into history, you've got detailed horrifying events in the Bastille. If you're into love, there's plenty of that in modern day and past. If you like chess, 3 words, BUY THE BOOK.All the different parts of an antique chess set are scatered all over the world and it is Cat's responsability to gather them and resolve the formula. The formula that gives the answer to one of the most asked questions, but I'm not gonna say. The book takes you through all the adventures of all these different characters, twines them together and...in the end...there's a BOOM!!
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Summary: A good book to pass up.
Review: An interesting premise turned into a silly plot: New Age Woman goes on fantasy adventure. But my main trouble with the book was the writing style, or rather styles. It reads like it is written by two or three seperate entities (Neville into chanelling?). Particularly annoying was the voice of the modern day character, Cat Vellis, who sounded as if she would be more at home in a harlequin romance.
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Summary: Masterful! The Eight is a 10!
Review: Katherine Neville's use of almost every historical person and event of the late 1700's adds a sense of reality to this almost-epic novel of power, politics, romance, mystery, and quest for ultimate knowledge. Her knowledge of history adds realism and believe-ability to her fiction. She excels at weaving 2 seemingly unrelated stories with cliff-hanger chapter endings which compel the reader to continue reading until the end. A wonderful read; this is one book you WILL read again.
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Summary: Ms. Neville has the power to capture the essence of time!
Review: I could not put this book down. In the league of Umburto Eco, Katherine Neville puts out another great book. She has the ability to tell a story that spans hundreds of years! Jumping from one time to the next was handled masterfully. She give a creepy sense of reality to this book that is like no other thriller I have ever read. Her incorporation of real charaters from history was beautifully done. She doesn't just tell a story, she creates a legacy. I definitely recommend this book to whomever picks it up. Well done!
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Summary: Excellent web of murder, deceipt, history and passion
Review: A wonderful intoxicating BIG book that presents every challenge to a reader which makes a reading experience extraordinary as opposed to just good. You are transported in time and space, unaware of the intertwinging of fiction and non. The characters - many from our history lessons and superegos - are sharply developed. Although the book ramble sin places and the characters get a bit overwhelming to keep up with, there's nary a wasted syllable. Set against the backdrop of chess, you don't have to be a chess player to enjoy it - the metaphor never escapes you with just a small sense of the game. Life is a game after all, and this book is a grande game of intrigue, mystery and even faith.
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Summary: drivel
Review: I found the idea of the book interesting and I wanted to see how it turned out but I found it hard to get through the badly written, over-wrought pages. Too many flat characters, too much going on and too many "if she had just known that her life was to change" lead ons. This was a neat idea that needed a good editor--and maybe a better author.
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Summary: Interesting, keeps your attention throughout the whole story
Review: I liked the story a lot, it runs from 18th century France, to the 20th century, taking you to the most exotic locations in the world. I don't know if the author can be compared to Umberto Eco, but she sure knows her share of mysticism and history. The story line gets too incredible at times making the plot fragile but that didn't stop me from buying her most recent book which I am about to start reading this evening
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