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Title	:	The Fire (The Eight #2)
Author	:	Katherine Neville
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 451 pages
Published	:	October 14th 2008 by Ballantine Books (first published January 1st 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Thriller. Adventure. Fantasy

The Fire (The Eight #2)

Katherine Neville

Hardcover | Pages: 451 pages

Rating: 3.26 | 6567 Users | 696 Reviews

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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 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 in this sequel to The Eight an unforgettable story of peril, action, and intrigue.

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Original Title:	The Fire
ISBN:	0345500679 (ISBN13: 9780345500670)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Eight #2
Characters:	Alexandra Solarin, Lily Rad, Ali Pasha, Haidee.
Setting:	Ottoman Empire,1822 Colorado,2003(United States)

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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

A dismal disappointment, especially because I was so enthralled by "The Eight" that I've reread it several times. It's fairly easy to determine what happened here. Neville had advertised for years that she was working on a sequel to "The Eight," but it never materialized. My guess: the higher-ups at the publisher finally called in their chits. Nearly every thought here is underdeveloped or, worse - OVERexplained. There is much chasing after clues . . . but the clues don't seem to flow from the

Despite the promising concept of continuing the age-old story of the Montglane service with the next generation of players, this tale pales in comparison to the adventures of Catherine and Alexander in The Eight. Perhaps it is the mix of old and new characters that leaves the reader feeling disjointed and stuck in the past. The introduction of Basque mythology and the "Colliers" is fascinating, but only whets the imagination before sweeping on to new ideas and leaving a murk of confusion in its

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

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

What a huge disappointment! Granted, writing a sequel to the amazing "The Eight" wasn't an easy task (far from it!) but this was just much too slow and confusing. The plot is thin and very predictable and the historical parts of the story added nothing to the story. They were, to be honest, quite boring. So much so that I ended up skipping them altogether...If you haven't read "The Eight", go ahead and do so you won't regret it! Just keep this sequel for desperate times only, when you have

I tried very hard to read this without comparing it to The Eight, and I kinda succeeded, but it was hard. I enjoyed it and found it to be a fun read. That said, I did not think the characters, particularly the new ones introduced in the 19th century parts, were as well-developed or engaging as those in The Eight. Haidee, whom I thought from the dust jacket was going to play a major role, never appears much in the second half of the book and doesn't have much personality. I thought the ending was