Sunday, April 25, 2010

The Fire - Katherine Neville

2008; 441 pages. Sequel to The Eight, which is reviewed here. Genre : Conspiracy Fiction. Overall Rating : 3*/10.
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April apparently is "sequel" month for me. Anansi Boys (which follows Gaiman's American Gods). The End of the Beginning (which completes Turtledove's Days of Infamy). And now The Fire, written 20 years after The Eight came out.
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My Review in 50 Words or less...
The next round of The Game has begun. Alexandra Solarin, daughter of Cat Velis, is now a central figure. Can she win, as her mother did 30 years earlier? Long on dialogue, but short on action. Not a stand-alone book. Could have been much better.
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The conflagration-sized version of this review is here.

2 comments:

Weather Man said...

3 out of 10... yowch!

terry said...

dude! welcome back to the blogiverse. i was thinking about you as the baseball season got underway.