I really, really wanted to love this book. Really. I liked it okay... but the love just wasn't there. It's a sequel to one of my favorite books ever - The Eight - and I had high hopes, but also reservations about whether the author could capture the magic of The Eight. Unfortunately, she did not. I can't even tell you what it is about The Eight that gives it that extra spark - or that extra bonfire - whatever it is that makes it one of the coolest books ever. But The Eight has it, while The Fire does not.
It's a good book. We get a glimpse at some of our old favorite characters from the original book - Cat Velis, Alexander Solarin, Ladislaus Nim, Charlot, Tallirand. But mostly the book is about Cat and Alexander's daughter Alexandra and her friends. Its fun and adventurous, but nothing like the original.
If someone can tell me why the two are so different, when they appear, on the surface, so much the same. I'd appreciate it.
But for now, I'll just wait my usual 2-3 years to forget the details, then enjoy The Eight all over again.
Katherine Neville Almost as good as the first one! Definitely a good follow-up. I love the Neville's style -- and the way in which the world is turned upside down. The books are similar to most historical adventure fiction, full of suspense and thrills. Neville builds amazing characters, and she takes you to fantastic places. I loved the start of this all being about the game of chess. If you like mystery and intricate details, this is a good book to read... but definitely read The Eight first... it's a two-book series. I wish she wrote more!
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I don't know.. maybe I just didn't get it. I've never been good at chess, but it seemed like her other book was a lot more exciting. This seemed to be a lot of crazy people sitting around talking about crazy things and drawing completely crazy conclusions totally out of thin air. Yah.. there was waaaaaay too much talking. At least there was some nice hot steamy bathroom boat sex *gag*gag*gag* 451 Todo jugador de ajedrez que se precie conoce la famosa frase de Thomas Jefferson: Creo mucho en la suerte, y he descubierto que cuanto más trabajo, más suerte tengo.
Después de haber leÃdo El ocho que me encantó y estará siempre dentro de mis favoritos, tenÃa muchas ganas de leer esta segunda parte, pero no ha cumplido de todo mis expectativas, quizás porque la autora ya habÃa dejado el listón muy en alto.
La autora repite fórmula, narrando la historia entre dos lÃneas de tiempo, 1822 y la actualidad, y un mismo impulsor, hay un ajedrez que da un gran poder a cualquiera que junte todas sus piezas.
“El Fuego†es un libro denso, con numerosas referencias a la simbologÃa, incluso en los nombres de personajes. La manera en la que se entrelazan las historias mÃsticas, la trama amorosa entre los protagonistas, y el desarrollo argumental principal de la obra hace que te despistes y te pierdas la relación existente entre los personajes.
Asà como El ocho me enganchó, “El Fuego†me ha costado más leerlo. 9780345500670
2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family’s ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother’s birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with them the secrets of the power that comes with possessing it. But Alexandra arrives to find that her mother is missing and that a series of strategically placed clues, followed swiftly by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious assortment of house guests, indicates that something sinister is afoot.
When she inadvertently discovers from her aunt, the chess grandmaster Lily Rad, that the most powerful piece of Charlemagne’s service has suddenly resurfaced and the Game has begun again, Alexandra is swept into a journey that takes her from Colorado to the Russian wilderness and at last into the heart of her own hometown: Washington, D.C.
1822, Albania: Thirty years after the French Revolution, when the chess service was unearthed, all of Europe hovers on the brink of the War of Greek Independence. Ali Pasha, the most powerful ruler in the Ottoman Empire, has angered the sultan and is about to be attacked by Turkish forces. Now he sends the only person he can rely uponâ€"his young daughter, Haideeâ€"on a dangerous mission to smuggle a valuable relic out of Albania, through the mountains and over the sea, to the hands of the one man who might be able to save it.
Haidee’s journey from Albania to Morocco to Rome to Greece, and into the very heart of the Game, will result in revelations about the powerful chess set and its history that will lead at last to the spot where the service was first created more than one thousand years before: Baghdad.
Blending exquisite prose and captivating history with nonstop suspense, Neville again weaves in this sequel to The Eight an unforgettable story of peril, action, and intrigue. The Fire (The Eight, #2)
Uch.
I didn't even finish the book, which is rare for me. This was just so painful and tedious to read, I couldn't stand it. There were parts where it seemed like Neville just took her historical research and put it into the mouths of the characters (and I use that term loosely) verbatim. The whole book felt like an attempt to cash in on the DaVinci Code craze for powerful-hidden-conspiracies-uncovered-by-deciphering-clues novels.
I am dreading going back and taking another look at The Eight, to which this was the sequel. I loved that book (I read it in college) and I wonder if this one was really that different. 9780345500670 Parte de este libro me ha encantado y parte la he aborrecido... La primera parte me gustó demasiado y eso quizás ha hecho que mis expectativas estuvieran muy altas.
Aún asà la trama de Alexandra me atrapó desde el principio y por suerte los capÃtulos que hacÃan referencia al pasado son minorÃa. English au, jedva izdržah do kraja
zašto sam joj zbiberio sjedni jedan?
monstruozno dosadno - baÅ¡ cijelu knjigu se odvija neka priprema, strka za neÅ¡to, nekog vraga, stalno se Äeka da već poÄne radnja (koja ima vezu s Monglanskom garniturom) i tako doÄ'emo do kraja i niÅ¡ta, baÅ¡ niÅ¡ta, neki apsolutno bezvezni zavrÅ¡etak s kvazi filozofijom.
sve liÄi na odvratne beskonaÄne trke i proganjanja u ameriÄkim filmovima (konji, koÄije, automobili, Äamci i ino Å¡to oni veselo izmiÅ¡ljaju), a udrobljeno likova za 3 knjige
i ne, ni na kraju nemam pojma ko je koga u njoj
veze ovo s odliÄnim prethodnikom Osmica nema, jednostavno zaboravite da postoji, valjda je izdavaÄu i gÄ'i zatrebalo para
The Fire (The Eight, #2) I am very disappointed to say that I had to give up on this book about halfway through. (See below to read what I had to say when I began it.) It's not awful, but ... it was way too easy to put it down and pick up other books. Oh, well.
I wrote earlier: [I've been waiting for this sequel to THE EIGHT for ever. Hooray! Okay, sure, I admit that in countless ways THE EIGHT was preposterous and silly. I loved it. Which makes me as frightened to read THE FIRE as I am eager... what if it's not as fun and absorbing? (Her other books weren't). But maybe it will be. Plus, I got hold of an ARC! Frabjous day!] 451 Puntuación: ââââ (4/5)
Una nueva partida, dos equipos enfrentados y una cuenta contrarreloj para vencer al enemigo.
Colorado, 2003. Alexandra Solarin acude a la inesperada invitación a la fiesta de cumpleaños de su madre, Catherine Velis, para descubrir que la vivienda está vacÃa, su madre desaparecida y hay unos invitados con los que no contaba. Siguiendo las pistas que su madre le ha ido dejando, Alexandra se verá en medio de una nueva partida de un juego ancestral que sus padres habÃan ocultado años atrás para evitar que nadie pudiera juntar de nuevo el ajedrez de Montglane y descifrar el peligroso secreto que oculta.
Katherine Neville teje de nuevo esta complicada historia en la que nada es lo que parece, las alianzas se tambalean y la tensión se mantiene desde el principio. Una digna continuación para la magistral novela El ocho que, con un objetivo similar, arranca un nuevo juego en el que las cosas están todavÃa por decidir.
âœ"ï¸ Puntos fuertes: intriga, ritmo trepidante, trama adictiva, lenguaje sencillo, los personajes.
⤠Te gustará si: buscas una lectura adictiva, una novela de intriga, si te gusta el estilo de la autora y has leÃdo El ocho. Katherine Neville
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