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Dec 23, 2011
Lisa (Harmonybites)
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it was ok
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Blurbs on the cover compare this to The DaVinci Code, although it was written well-before, in 1988. I can see the resemblance. Like The DaVinci Code there are various kinds of puzzles involved--crosswords, cryptograms and mathematical puzzles. Like The DaVinci Code there is a mystery of great historical import and a sinister conspiracy. The book shuttled between Revolutionary France and contemporary times to tell the story of a chess set owned by Charlemagne whose owner could change the world.
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Really inventive and original...it's amazing to believe this book was written twenty years ago, well before the Da Vinci Code craze started the propagation of books like this. The writing at points was a little dull and some part required a sled to move through, but in the end I could not put this book down. I really enjoyed her approach to characters as well as the historical side, which made the book infinitely confusing and, therefore, very interesting.
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The writing is sometimes clumsy but I stand by the rating I gave after the first time I read it.
This book is the forerunner of Dan Brown's Da Vinci code and others in its genre. It's full of adventure and historical characters. Okay, it was written in 1988 and this is noticeable, but nottoo bothersome.
Once in a while I winced when the story became a tad improbable (a slender woman knocking down a member of the secret police, dropping in the ocean and swimming with a bag full of heavy goodies, an ...more
This book is the forerunner of Dan Brown's Da Vinci code and others in its genre. It's full of adventure and historical characters. Okay, it was written in 1988 and this is noticeable, but nottoo bothersome.
Once in a while I winced when the story became a tad improbable (a slender woman knocking down a member of the secret police, dropping in the ocean and swimming with a bag full of heavy goodies, an ...more
Oct 21, 2011
Elhara
marked it as to-read
Mar 02, 2012
Traci Sherlock
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Mar 17, 2012
Marscha
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Feb 15, 2013
Geraldine
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4.5 stars
