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The Fire (The Eight, #2)
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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 intrigue, adventures and secrets, danger and conspiracy. She is invited to a strange party and left even stranger clues by her mother which sets her off on an adventure to find the hidden pieces of the Montglane Service, a chess set once owned by Charlemagne, and on this adventure she's unsure who to trust as she finds out the truth about herself and her family. (You can always tell whether I've read a book by the sticky notes stuck inside the first cover - notes, quotes, thoughts I've had while reading it - and you know I've loved it when there are a lot. The whole inside of the front cover is full. Enough said.)
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I wish Amazon had an E-walmart-esque bag that I could fill up with books for x-amount of money haha. I am getting quite good at this bag. For Christmas, I bought one of the pre-teeny-bopper kids in this complex and one of the housekeepers pre-teeny-bopper kids both books - 7 each - plus 11 for me :) - and 4 for my mom - and they all fit into that beloved bag. I really am quite good at filling it haha. And a lot of them were hardcovers. It's good and I recommend that you read it. I don't know if you read my review of The Eight, but I happened to like this one better and am glad that I read them in reverse order because, to me, The Eight dragged a little at the beginning and this one pulled me right in, so reading The Eight was like filling in back information I was unsure about.
It sounds much like this one. Intrigue danger, conspiracy and action...even a bit of a Luv story that didn't intrude on other things and, wouldn't you know it? A female heroine (in 70s mould but still, a rare find in the semi-action/adventure genre of the 70s and 80s)
Great review, I'll have to look for this one.
Can't beat the price either. I'll have to go to Amazaon with me E-walmart-esque bag... if such a thing exists.