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The Fire

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Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric riddles, and puzzles encryp...more Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts, esoteric riddles, and puzzles encrypted with clues from the ancient past. Now the electrifying global adventure continues, in Neville’s long anticipated sequel: THE FIRE

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 houseguests, 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 upon–his young daughter, Haidee–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 an unforgettable story of peril, action, and intrigue.

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Published October 14th 2008 by Ballantine Books

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Dec 16, 2008 Linda rated it 4 of 5 stars

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...more

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Jul 08, 2008 Nancy rated it 2 of 5 stars

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...more

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Nov 28, 2008 Sharon rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction

Like millions of readers around the world, I have eagerly awaited a sequel to "The Eight." Twenty years after publication of the original, Neville brings forth a work that is just as entertaining and delightful as its parent work.

With plotlines taken directly from the headlines, "The Fire" focuses on Alexandra Solarin, daughter of Catherine and Aleksandr (two of the main characters in "The Eight"). On the verge of becoming the youngest grandmaster in the history of the game, she stops playing, a...more

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Nov 28, 2008 Kelly rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: patient readers of historic adventures and math / chess fans

Shelves: quest

I waited a long time for this book. It's a sequel to The Eight, which was unlike anything else when it came out in the late 1980s. It was based on this idea of a fabulous, ancient chess set endowed with power, which pulls the people around it into The Game. The sequel, like the original, moves back and forth through time, and incorporates math, patterns, chess, urban planning, brainy heroines, romantic men, historic interpretation, and unusual settings. What I liked best about both books is the...more

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Jan 21, 2009 Caroline rated it 1 of 5 stars

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,...more

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Mar 13, 2011 Wisteria Leigh rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Fire, by Katherine Neville was such a huge disappointment. I like many others, was mesmerized by The Eight, written twenty years ago. I would often wonder what happened to the author? I yearned, craved another book as an addict seeks his next high. When The Fire was offered as part of the Early Reviewer program, I was naturally delirious. Finally, the long drought from Ms. Neville would be appeased. Sadly, after reading The Fire, I cannot recommend this book with the same enthusiasm or promi...more

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Apr 20, 2010 Joyce Lagow rated it 1 of 5 stars

An Early Reviewer book.[return][return]Twenty years ago, Neville published The Eight, which I read around that time. I reread The Eight recently, in order to prepare myself for the sequel, The Fire. I didn� t change my opinion of The Eight� good but writing that struck me as almost juvenile. The plot itself is hard to describe in terms of genre. Chess forms the matrix of the story. Puzzles (a la The Da Vinci Code, which was published much later, in 2003), murders, quests, history, two time frame...more An Early Reviewer book.[return][return]Twenty years ago, Neville published The Eight, which I read around that time. I reread The Eight recently, in order to prepare myself for the sequel, The Fire. I didn� t change my opinion of The Eight� good but writing that struck me as almost juvenile. The plot itself is hard to describe in terms of genre. Chess forms the matrix of the story. Puzzles (a la The Da Vinci Code, which was published much later, in 2003), murders, quests, history, two time frames (present and French Revolution)� a combination of all of those. Good premises for the story. But the combination of mediocre writing and too many disconnects in the twists and turns of the plot really detracted from the book. Still, it was a good if not outstanding read.[return][return]With The Fire, it really seems as if Neville took an outline of The Eight and just transposed new names and time frames into the plot. Again, chess is at the heart of the plot. Exactly the same format as The Eight, exactly the same plot development, even down to details of the romantic development, puzzles within puzzles, murders, history (this time set in 1822 and the present), quests, historical figures woven into the plot� you really feel you� re reading the same book only with its faults magnified.[return][return]Neville� s writing has improved although there are still lapses into a style that makes you cringe as you read it� again, juvenile� and I� m sure her historical research is excellent. [return][return]But everything else is over the top� too much of everything. Too many twists and turns, too many unexplained leaps in the plot, characters left dangling, too many absurd entries of historical figures such as Thomas Jefferson, and to top it all off, such a strained plot that it not just strains credulity but shatters it.[return][return]The best example I can give: about half way through the book, two chess Grand Masters are playing a game, with a chess expert watching. White is suddenly in an uncomfortable position in which, according to the book, she can see no way out. Neither can the expert and even the other Grand Master. Suddenly up trundles a 3 year old who, with one move with White� s knight, checkmates the Black king. Everyone just falls over themselves at this display of precocity.[return][return]I have no trouble whatsoever with the idea of precocity in a 3 year old but I have major heartburn with the concept that in one move with an obvious piece a child� or anyone� checkmates the other side� s king� and three chess experts didn� t see it. Give me a break. That� s going beyond suspension of belief into absurdity.[return][return]The entire book is more or less like that. Too much that strains credulity beyond reasonable limits.[return][return]The tension in the plot really doesn't justify the actions; everybody talks about the terrible dangers the protagonists are in but that's it--it's all talk. The climax is so pathetic that it's embarrassing. The ending is extremely weak and makes the whole plot seem pointless.[return][return]All in all a major disappointment.(less)

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Mar 28, 2009 Jess rated it 2 of 5 stars

The good thing about reading books after their sequels have been published is the waiting: there isn't any. If you're just starting Harry Potter now, for instance, you won't have to experience the torturous in-between years, waiting and theorizing and criticizing everything just because you're so impatient you can hardly stand to look at the words "Harry Potter".

But I digress.

The Eight came out in the late 1980's, and it was a masterpiece of intrigue and metaphor, with parallel stories and intr...more

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Mar 05, 2009 Debbie rated it 3 of 5 stars

I have to admit I was a little disappointed in this sequel. I absolutely loved The Eight. I loved Cat, Solarin, Mordecai, Lily and the whole crew. While we do see some of the old crew back this book covers the next generation which I was fine with but I felt like the secrets behind the numbers and puzzles just did not grab me as much. The storyline was a little weak to me. It was easy to predict how the relationship between Alexandra and Vartan would develop. I also couldn’t bring myself to like...more

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Jan 06, 2009 Leigh Statham rated it 2 of 5 stars

Ok.. I really really really loved reading Katherine Neville's book "The Eight" several years ago. I still think it's a great little book. So I was super excited to hear that she wrote a sequel. It was all down hill from there. I struggled through the opening chapters full of obscure middle eastern names and theories but I hung in there because I thought it would pay off in the end. Every corner that the story turned I thought I would finally get to the good part. But every time the bad guy was g...more

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Sep 29, 2012 Meghan rated it 5 of 5 stars

I picked this book up at a local thrift store that sells as many books as you can fit into a Walmart-esque bag for $4.99 (and I can fit a lot of books into this bag). So far, I have picked up books I have never heard of and have been extremely satisfied with my choices. I did not, until after reading it, discover that it was the second book, and yet I really had no problem understanding the story, despite some of the chess talk I didn't quite understand. A great book!! Full of action and intrigu...more

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Sep 01, 2012 Anachronist rated it 3 of 5 stars

Synopsis:

The Fire is actually a sequel to Katherine Neville’s The Eight published some twenty years ago and reviewed by me last year. The Fire, like The Eight, follows two timelines, one past (in this case 1822) and one present (2003).

Alexandra Solarin (Xie) was twelve years old in the autumn of 1993. She was being accompanied by her father, Aleksandr Solarin on a chess tournament in Zagorsk Monastery, Russia. This young chess prodigy was to play against a similarly young boy from Ukraine named...more

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Aug 13, 2012 Javier Atapuerca rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Eight fue un libro que disfruté mucho. La trama me enganchó. Los personajes me atrajeron. La doble narración, pasada y presente, me interesó. Fue un libro que me gustó.

El Fuego en cambio, e irónicamente, me dejó muy frío. Quizá el estilo del libro ya no era una novedad para mí. Igual se me pasó el tiempo de este tipo de novelas, no lo sé. Ya el libro de la misma autora The Magic Circle me había dejado muy poco convencido. Algo me fallaba que había encontrado en The Eight.

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Apr 22, 2011 Jim rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, thrillers

In this entertaining and well-constructed follow-up (prequel and sequel at the same time) to THE EIGHT of over two decades ago, Neville revisits a few of the characters from the first story while introducing many new ones in a tale--part thriller, part mystery, part many other things--that is once again built around the game of chess. As in the earlier book, the story more or less takes place in two timelines; one is largely Europe of the 1820s and the other is mainly here in the States at the s...more

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Jul 21, 2010 ICPL Staff Picks added it

Shelves: john, mysteries, fantasy, fiction, science-fiction, staff-picks-blog

It’s been five years since The Da Vinci Code triggered an avalanche of imitators–thrillers featuring codes and ciphers, arcane knowledge, and ancient conspiracies. To me, the book that most resembled it was Katherine Neville’s The Eight, which was actually written 15 years before the Code. Positing a thousand year old chess set with alchemical powers, and a larger Game with geopolitical implications, the book acquired something of a cult, and, after 20 years, a sequel.

The Fire finds Alexandra So...more

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Jul 31, 2009 Elizabeth K. rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2008-new-reads

I have very mixed feelings about this, it's the sequel to The Eight. It's the kind of sequel where you very much have to have read the first book, it wouldn't stand alone very well at all. Now, I almost always like a sequel AT LEAST in the sense that I like to know what happens to everyone after. Sometimes I have heard people, when talking about a favorite book, claim that it's better NOT to know, that a sequel would only ruin things. That, my friends, is the talk of crazy people. So on the one...more I have very mixed feelings about this, it's the sequel to The Eight. It's the kind of sequel where you very much have to have read the first book, it wouldn't stand alone very well at all. Now, I almost always like a sequel AT LEAST in the sense that I like to know what happens to everyone after. Sometimes I have heard people, when talking about a favorite book, claim that it's better NOT to know, that a sequel would only ruin things. That, my friends, is the talk of crazy people. So on the one hand, I was glad to catch up with the characters from The Eight again, although I was also a little disappointed that for them, overall, life after the events of The Eight was ... well, mostly a bummer.

To set the stage, The Eight is about the hunt for a mysterious ancient chess set, told in two stories: one search taking place around the time of the French Revolution, and the other in the 1970s. The Fire is the next generation of chess set seekers.

One of the things I liked the best about The Eight is that it was a good mix between adventure (which I found very suspenseful and engaging) and the rather new age-y story about the significance of the chess set (which I was not overly interested in, but whatever). In The Fire, the scales have tipped in favor of the mystical, and the adventure took a backseat. I was half-way though the book when I realized the characters hadn't even GONE anywhere yet, and then they ended up going to Washington D.C., which is where my class went on its 8th grade field trip so it doesn't seem to me to be an overly exotic destination. And because I am a nitpicky annoying person, I was also peeved that there were a few places where the plot turned on points that seem to be contradictory to the parameters set up in the first book about how the chess game worked.

Despite all of that, I found myself liking the ultimate resolution of the fate of the centuries old chess game. Odd that I wasn't overly impressed by how the author got the characters to that point, though.

Grade: Meh
Recommended: If you are a big fan of The Eight you will probably find this hard to resist.
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Sep 22, 2009 Michael rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: would not recommend

Recommended to Michael by: given a copy at ThrillerFest

Shelves: mystery, own-it, advanced-copy-review, historical, read-in-2009, reviewed, signed-edition

I wanted to enjoy this novel but instead was uninterested in the plot and the characters.
This is the follow up to the well received "The Eight" but in this case the characters were stereotypes. Picture a room full of chess champions that still can have an interesting conversation on anything else but chess. The protagonist was hard to believe. Striving to become the youngest chess grandmaster before reaching age 12, then later while at the Cullinary Institute being recruted by the CIA. Is this a...more

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Apr 04, 2009 Denise rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who enjoyed The Eight

Recommended to Denise by: Vinnie Olivieri, Mom, Dad

Shelves: fiction

If you've read The Eight by Katherine Neville, you'll understand why I was excited this evening when I realized I was going to finish reading this book on April 4th. And after years of hearing praise and recommendations for The Eight, I was very excited to read both it and this the sequel. I was distracted at times by some rather unbelievable cameos, but generally I grew progressively more hooked as I discovered each new plot twist. My only real criticism, and perhaps it was a miscalculation of...more

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Sep 17, 2011 Intplibrarian added it

Shelves: own, unfinished

I absolutely LOVED The Eight by Katherine Neville. I wouldn't say it was for everyone; not everyone likes complex plots that have your head spinning at times, but I do. I'm sure people who understand and play chess enjoyed it even more than I did.[return][return]However, I've been reading The Fire, a sequel to The Eight, for over two weeks now. I get drawn into the story in parts and then have no problem putting it down in the next chapter. I find myself picking up other things to read rather th...more

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Feb 19, 2009 apple rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: suspense-thriller

Giving "The Fire" only one star might not be fair, but I just can't help it, having waited like FOREVER (and even sounding like a Twilight Fangirl here) for a sequel of the ingenious "The Eight".

Since the predecessor was SO very very good it robs me of any more creative adjectives, I had such a high expectation of "The Fire".
But it didn't really deliver... What's with the lead character going on and on about...food, and not to mention total lack of chemistry whatsoever between Alexandra and her...more

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Jul 03, 2012 Jessica rated it 1 of 5 stars

The author herself describes the predecessor to this book (The Eight) by saying there were no other books like it. She goes on to say that she never intended to write any followups. She really should have taken her own words of wisdom to heart (as Key would say).

This book had too many ideas, names, subnames and places and not nearly enough action. There is literally one action scene, 15 pages from the end of the book and it is tied up nicely, ex machina, with no one getting hurt. The characters...more

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May 31, 2009 Krista rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: general-fiction

This is a sequel to Katherine Neville's unique historical thriller, "The Eight." Well back before "The DaVinci Code," Neville imagined a way to bring together historical mystery and modern-day thriller. "The Eight" was sometimes ponderous, but managed by its end to convince you that the author was gutsy and imaginative, two features often missing in lit today.

"The Fire" repeats the qualities that made "The Eight" so fascinating: puzzles, daring authorial choices, and a hefty serving of historica...more

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Dec 10, 2011 Linda rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery-crime

Twenty years ago, Katherine Neville published her first novel, the acclaimed The Eight>. The raves encouraged me to read that book, and, sad to say, I was underwhelmed. Now Neville has published its sequel, The Fire>, featuring Alexandra Solarin, daughter of her first protagonist. The game of chess figures prominently in both works; perhaps not coincidentally, both books proceed at the pace of a chess match.

In this go-round, Xie (Alexandra's nickname, pronounced "Zee") must discover why h...more

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Feb 19, 2009 Sean rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventure, suspense

I read Katherine Neville's "The Eight" at the urging of a friend when I was a teenager and was bowled over by it, so when the sequel came out I decided I had to re-read the original first and then move on to "The Fire." Unfortunately, "The Eight" didn't stand up to a re-read, and "The Fire" was much, much worse.

"The Fire" fails as a narrative, let alone as a mystery, adventure or thriller. Neville has no notion of transition, and she wrenches the reader from place to place and from time period t...more

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Mar 06, 2010 Hannah rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: amerikaans, detective-mysterie-thriller, historisch

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Feb 05, 2010 Sammy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: c-the-okay

Sadly this book can't hold a candle to The Eight. To me it came across as a slapped together attempt to ride the coat tails of the success of The Da Vinci Code. There was no need for her to do that though. In the sudden rise of these historical mysteries popularity The Eight would have been rediscovered by a new generation all on it's own, there was no need for a shoddy sequel to point readers towards it.

I should preface that my entire judgement and criticism on the book could be clouded by the...more Sadly this book can't hold a candle to The Eight. To me it came across as a slapped together attempt to ride the coat tails of the success of The Da Vinci Code. There was no need for her to do that though. In the sudden rise of these historical mysteries popularity The Eight would have been rediscovered by a new generation all on it's own, there was no need for a shoddy sequel to point readers towards it.

I should preface that my entire judgement and criticism on the book could be clouded by the fact that while reading this I was in the midst of a serious family emergency, which often didn't allow me to focus entirely on the book. Even so, it was so drawn out and fact heavy there was nothing within it that gave me the much needed distraction that books can often provide. For most of the book I was confused and bored. There wasn't a lot of plot or action, and it was heavy with "telling not showing." Neville tried to follow the same formula she wrote The Eight with in terms of having two corresponding storylines happening at once but that didn't work this time. The twists and turns that were shocking and exciting in The Eight seemed predictable this time around. The story took a back seat to all the facts and information being given (very dryly I might add) which then defeated the purpose of having all this information because there was no story for it to fuel.

My investment in the characters was non-existant, mainly because their development was non-existant. Relationships suddenly appeared, other characters disappeared, and the ones we loved from The Eight just seemed shoved in there because fans of the first novel were expecting them to be there. While in The Eight there were many characters, every single one was neccessary. Here? No. Too many. Too many characters coming across as useless and hard to keep track of.

Of course most of this critique is being made in comparison to The Eight, but it's the sequel. The Fire was a sequel that did not live up to it's predecessor, which is disappointing because The Eight was such a fantastic novel. The Fire wasn't entirely without it's good points. Neville still stayed strong to the endearing cheesiness I grew fond of in The Eight. She also made sure not to leave any stone unturned, so even though it stretched the novel out and made it boring at times there was no way you were left going, "Wait! what about...?" Most importantly there was Neville's beautiful use of language, she writes with wit and intelligence abundantly. This actually was the first book in a long time that I've had to stop and look up a word or two.

In the end I will state it was worth the read, even if it was just to make The Eight seem all that much greater. I'll stand by my original statement though that this sequel didn't really need to be written. An okay but unneccessary book. (less)

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Feb 17, 2013 Helene rated it 1 of 5 stars

After waiting about 20 yrs for this book to be written I had eagerly reserved my hardback copy and was stocked up on chocolate, white wine, and other goodies to munch while I laid on the sofa to read what I thought was going to be brilliant.. after all KV had been writing it or at least thinking about it for 20yrs..

Oh why did I bother... Maybe its because when The Eight was released back in the 80's it was a new concept, (the concept that has now been beaten to death by Dan Brown and others like...more

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Dec 06, 2010 kingshearte rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, fiction

Given that I very much enjoyed The Eight, even on a re-read, this one was disappointing, for a number of reasons.

First, it was kind of confusing, particularly in terms of who was a player and what role they played and for which side (or if sides even mattered). The role of the White Queen in particular, seemed like it was passed around so much I got whiplash trying to keep track. I'm sure this is deliberate, and meant to mirror Alexandra's own confusion, but it just wasn't well-handled. I think...more Given that I very much enjoyed The Eight, even on a re-read, this one was disappointing, for a number of reasons.

First, it was kind of confusing, particularly in terms of who was a player and what role they played and for which side (or if sides even mattered). The role of the White Queen in particular, seemed like it was passed around so much I got whiplash trying to keep track. I'm sure this is deliberate, and meant to mirror Alexandra's own confusion, but it just wasn't well-handled. I think there's a difference between keeping a reader on their toes with the twists you send their way and overwhelming them with a near-constant barrage of dis/information. In The Eight, Neville hit that balance really well. In this one, not so much.

Second, despite all that, I still got to the end feeling like, after more than 400 pages, nothing had really happened. In The Eight, both storylines had stuff going on, involving history, suspense, romance, and intrigue, and there was always a sense of action. In this one, both storylines were pretty much flat.

The 1822 one really felt like it was only there because she set a precedent of having parallel storylines, so she had to do it again. Haidée herself was more or less irrelevant, and halfway through that plot, Byron gets involved, and maybe if I knew more about Byron's work and/or life, I'd pick up on some more symbolism or relevant meaning or something, but as it was, I really didn't see the point.

And as for the 2003 plot, it just didn't really have anything going on. Instead of making decisions and coming up with solutions to the riddles she was presented with, and strategizing on what moves to make, as Cat did in The Eight, Alexandra was pretty much just along for the ride while other people made decisions for her and explained all the previous moves in the Game to her (and us). And there's the problem, really. In The Eight, we were in the middle of the Game with Cat. In this one, it kind of felt like we arrived when there were only a few moves left before the checkmate, and someone was describing the earlier parts of the Game for us. Not nearly as interesting or compelling.

Also, Neville sucks at writing romance plots. Cat and Alexander's romance kind of came out of nowhere, but I could overlook that because it really only played a small part in the overall story, and the rest of it was so enjoyable. Alexandra and Vartan, on the other hand? It started earlier in the book, but with little or no preamble. Just BLAM! Romance for the ages, that we then have to put up with for the rest of the book.

Overall, like I said, this was disappointing. I've certainly read worse, but really, this was mediocre at best, and that really is too bad. I still endorse The Eight, but I'd pass on this one.

Also, there's a typo on the back cover. Not awesome.(less)

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Jan 05, 2012 Goncalo rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romance, thriller, ficção-histórica

O Fogo é a sequela de O Oito, uma sequela escrita cerca de 20 anos depois. Com tanto tempo para escrever o livro, as minhas expectativas encontravam-se um bocado elevadas.

Tendo adorado o enredo do anterior livro, esperava um enredo igualmente bom, com uma melhoria significativa no desenrolar da acção e definição das personagens, acima de tudo, na própria escrita "desorganizada" da autora, mas nada disto aconteceu. O enredo perdeu a originalidade, os dois momentos históricos estão pior definidos,...more

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Dec 10, 2008 Lisa rated it 2 of 5 stars

I really wanted to love this book, but at the end of the day, I didn't. It wasn't that it was a BAD book, but I didn't see the point in writing it at all. I thought "The Eight" ended perfectly and I never expected there would be a sequel; I didn't think it needed it. And I was right. "The Fire" tries to recapture the magic of "The Eight" but without the freshness of the original. It felt like my favorite characters from "The Eight" only had cameo appearances and didn't do much that mattered. And...more

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About Katherine Neville

Katherine Neville is an American author. Her novels include The Eight, A Calculated Risk, and The Magic Circle. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and she previously worked as a photographer, a model, a consultant at the Department of Energy, and a vice president of the local Bank of America.
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