It is time that I publish this column about the book which was the subject of the book club last Wednesday! Here's The Eight, a historical thriller, and mystique.
Abstract: New York, December 1972: Catherine Velis, a young computer expert, was sent to Algeria to work for OPEC. But before his departure, the bizarre events follow one another around a fortune teller, part of a historical game, and a Russian chess grandmaster.
South of France, Spring 1790: Mireille de Remy and her cousin Valentine are new Montglane fortified abbey. While the revolution in full swing, the Mother Superior's office with a strange mission : Spread worldwide game pieces Chess Montglane, a Moor would have offered to Charlemagne. These, combined, contained a secret that would give access to a terrible power. The two cousins then leave for Paris where there is terror.
My opinion:
I long to read this book. The very beautiful colors of the cover of the English version reprinted recently did not stop lying on my nightstand and in my suitcase for the many weeks. For I long to immerse myself really.
one hand, there is the story of Mireille and Valentine, both peties novices who are telling a wonderful story and give the pieces of a chess game that can, apparently, to turn the head of Charlemagne. Historical background on this side of the French Revolution had nothing to displease me, but I was soon disturbed by the habit that takes the author to enter the scene, each chapter, at least one or two figures. At first it stands quite well: those politicians who have Revolution have certainly had the opportunity to criss-crosses, and thus one can imagine an adventure that would unfold in their midst. But it quickly becomes excessive. It seems that only men and women whose names history has retained the right to have cited in this adventure. And soon they are foreigners, artists, writers, scientists, princes and kings who enter the dance, the author will stop at nothing. This artificiality tired me a lot.
On the other hand, there is the story of Catherine, a young computer expert American Contemporary - What there is a sweet retro with this story set in the late '70s - and especially lively and friendly. The problem with her is that she ends up embroiled in a series of small adventures bizarre nonsensical that one wonders what she may have in common. It takes a long time, actually until the arrival of Catherine in Algeria in the middle of the book, so we can find them a little sense.
But from there, everything is better . I continued to prefer the adventures of Catherine, as they have always appeared Mireille too "Mystical" or grandiose, although some passages are particularly poignant and the general atmosphere of the era quite well done. But for Catherine, he is a friend to nature and cheeky repartee exquisite, an adorably nasty little dog, a chess player, sexy and mysterious, and generally an entourage surprising but very firm footing. And then the adventures of Catherine, once in Algeria, becoming breathless, between the desert, mountains, sea and the casbah ...
course the story of Mireille and Catherine join at any time. And all questions are answered - well, almost all, as far as I'm concerned there are still some shadows. And reached the end, it is almost sad to finish it, which is always a good sign.
In the end, a beginning not too conclusive for a sequel that inspired me to directly order the second volume of this adventure, a sympathetic and well researched novel, which, while not free of defects that have a great time . I had never heard of before the Book Club and it was a pleasure to make this discovery.
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