The Eight
When two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover the chess pieces--and is caught up in a nefarious, globe-spanning conspiracy. more
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The Eight
Pages: 624, Edition: Reprint, Paperback, Ballantine Books |
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Recent Reviews
- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-14-2009
- Dan Brown Meets Sandra Brown in a Rousing Romantic Adventure
The Eight by Katherine NevilleThe story seemed like one that Dan Brown and Sandra Brown might have collaborated to create. It is a study of mysticism and mysterious formulas, treasure, clues and a wealth of historic personages wrapped...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-26-2009
- WORST BOOK EVER!
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS BOOK IS SO HIGHLY RATED. IT IS BADLY WRITTEN & BADLY RESEARCHED. THE CHARACTERS ARE PREDICTABLE, THE STORY ARC BORING. The Catholic church are the good guys, the Knights Templar the bad guys ... don't waste your...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-24-2009
- Implausible, full of holes, this secret power just doesn't add up
Noting the really bad aspects of this novel (lack of characterization, trite writing style, foreshadowing that often led nowhere, steamy romance built up out of whole cloth without any plausibility, sheer implausibility that so many...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-17-2009
- BIG Dissapointment
This realy let me down....given the unique plot line SO much more could have been done with it. Aside from the two main female protagoniss the rest of the line-up is either far too predicable or outright lame to the point of pain....
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Selected Reviews
- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-14-2009
- Dan Brown Meets Sandra Brown in a Rousing Romantic Adventure
The Eight by Katherine NevilleThe story seemed like one that Dan Brown and Sandra Brown might have collaborated to create. It is a study of mysticism and mysterious formulas, treasure, clues and a wealth of historic personages wrapped...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: May-08-2009
- In the chess game of literature The Eight is a Stalemate
The idea of this novel has long intrigued me. A friend of mine had this novel about ten years ago. He told me of the plot and it was one that stayed with me until I finally came across this book this year and decided to purchase it. Once...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-26-2009
- WORST BOOK EVER!
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS BOOK IS SO HIGHLY RATED. IT IS BADLY WRITTEN & BADLY RESEARCHED. THE CHARACTERS ARE PREDICTABLE, THE STORY ARC BORING. The Catholic church are the good guys, the Knights Templar the bad guys ... don't waste your...
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