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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Between Mireille and Valentine.
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* TheWomanBehindTheMan:
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Lily Rad, once she gets the chance to drive herself.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Catherine (Cat Velis, Catherine the Great, Catherine Grand-admittedly the latter two were real people, and thus unavoidable) also Charlot the falcon, Charlot de Remy, Charlotte de Remy, Charles Maurice Talleyrand, and of course, Charlemagne.
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* PrettyBoy: Talleyrand is explicitly described this way.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Between Mireille and Valentine.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The villain of the French Revolution timeline turns out not to be Talleyrand. It's not even Robespierre. It's [[spoiler:Marat.]]
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The main characters in the first book are on the black team. Cat Velis takes over from [[spoiler:Mireille]] as the Black Queen. The antagonists are all on the white team. In the sequel it gets a little more complicated.
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* SignificantAnagram: Gaelen March is an anagram for Charlemagne, first tipping Alexandra off that he's more than he seems.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Almost everyone featured in the earlier timelines of both books.
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''The Eight'' is a novel by American author Katherine Neville. Amateur chess player Catherine becomes involved in the search for a legendary chess set, the Montglane Service, once owned by Charlemagne. Split into double narratives, the novel also tells the story of eighteenth-century nun Mirellie and her attempts to protect the set.
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''The Eight'' is a novel by American author Katherine Neville. Amateur chess player Catherine Computer scientist Cat Velis becomes involved in the search for a legendary chess set, the Montglane Service, once owned by Charlemagne. Split into double narratives, the novel also tells the story of eighteenth-century nun Mirellie Mireille and her attempts to protect the set.
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Cat and Solarin had a daughter named Alexandra Solarin also is the whole reason the sequel exist.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler:Cat and Solarin had a daughter named Alexandra Solarin also who is the whole reason the sequel exist.sequel's protagonist.]]
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* SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn: Solarin is the Soviet Grand Master of chess.
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* NerdsAreSexy: Again Alexander Solarin and Lily by the end.
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* UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution: Parts of the narrative are set during the revolution.
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* ChessMotifs: the whole plot of the book.
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* ChessMotifs: the The whole plot of the book.
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* RuleofSexy: Solarin and how specially [[spoiler:when thay are traveling back to New York]].
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* BigBeautifulWoman: Lily starts as this.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Of course. Just a few: Basque people were never a menace for the Carolingian Empire. The rules for the Mad-Queen Chess, or modern chess, are from the XIV century, making it impossible to have a Chess Master associated with Charlemagne. In fact, in that era, there was no queen at all, but a piece named Vizier.
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* SignificantBirthDate: The main character was born on April 4, which ties in with a lot of the book's numerology and is also said to be an Islamic holy day.
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''The Eight'' is a novel by American author Katherine Neville. Amateur chess player Catherine becomes involved in the search for a legendary chess set, the Montglane Service, once owned by Charlemagne. Split into double narratives, the novel also tells the story of eighteenth-century nun Mirellie and her attempts to protect the set.
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* ActionGirl: Catherine and Lily, but the most amazing one is Mirelle.
* [[spoiler:BabiesEverAfter]]: [[spoiler:Cat and Solarin had a daughter named Alexandra Solarin also is the whole reason the sequel exist.]]
* BigBeautifulWoman: Lily starts as this.
* BigBrotherMentor: Nim to Cat
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Nim could fit into this since he is always one step ahead.
* CharacterDevelopment: A lot! Lily starts as a SpoiledBrat and changes to [[spoiler:ActionGirl / SpoiledSweet]].
* ChessMotifs: the whole plot of the book.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: one minor player insists that, when he captures a piece, a spectator be kicked out of the room so that the room's 'symmetry' is maintained.
* {{Doorstopper}}: 624 pages in the paperback edition.
* GloriousMotherRussia: The book is set on the Cold War and in Catherine the Great's Russia.
* ImmortalitySeeker [[spoiler:Mirelle and the whole cast at the end.]]
* ItGotWorse: [[spoiler:It is true with the dead of sweet Valentine and ItGotWorse because the MagnificentBastard makes Mirelle is ForcedtoWatch.]]
* NerdsAreSexy: Again Alexander Solarin and Lily by the end.
* NunsAreFunny: Valentine
* RuleofSexy: Solarin and how specially [[spoiler:when thay are traveling back to New York]].
* SmartPeoplePlayChess
* SpoiledBrat: Lily is this at the beginning. ItGetsBetter.
* SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn: Solarin is the Soviet Grand Master of chess.
* TalkingThroughTechnique
* TheFrenchRevolution: parts of the narrative are set during the revolution.
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* ActionGirl: Catherine and Lily, but the most amazing one is Mirelle.
* [[spoiler:BabiesEverAfter]]: [[spoiler:Cat and Solarin had a daughter named Alexandra Solarin also is the whole reason the sequel exist.]]
* BigBeautifulWoman: Lily starts as this.
* BigBrotherMentor: Nim to Cat
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Nim could fit into this since he is always one step ahead.
* CharacterDevelopment: A lot! Lily starts as a SpoiledBrat and changes to [[spoiler:ActionGirl / SpoiledSweet]].
* ChessMotifs: the whole plot of the book.
* CrazyPeoplePlayChess: one minor player insists that, when he captures a piece, a spectator be kicked out of the room so that the room's 'symmetry' is maintained.
* {{Doorstopper}}: 624 pages in the paperback edition.
* GloriousMotherRussia: The book is set on the Cold War and in Catherine the Great's Russia.
* ImmortalitySeeker [[spoiler:Mirelle and the whole cast at the end.]]
* ItGotWorse: [[spoiler:It is true with the dead of sweet Valentine and ItGotWorse because the MagnificentBastard makes Mirelle is ForcedtoWatch.]]
* NerdsAreSexy: Again Alexander Solarin and Lily by the end.
* NunsAreFunny: Valentine
* RuleofSexy: Solarin and how specially [[spoiler:when thay are traveling back to New York]].
* SmartPeoplePlayChess
* SpoiledBrat: Lily is this at the beginning. ItGetsBetter.
* SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn: Solarin is the Soviet Grand Master of chess.
* TalkingThroughTechnique
* TheFrenchRevolution: parts of the narrative are set during the revolution.
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