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Review title: Great idea, but the execution is too confused
Product review: I picked up this book after reading and loving "The DaVinci Code." The premise of two women in different time periods on a quest for the pieces of a mystical, Moorish chesss set of untold power is a great idea, but this book is just too unwieldy in its execution. There were too many characters to keep track of, and only a few of those were developed to their full potential. The book seemed too scattershot -- it contained references to everyone from Napoleon to Catherine the Great to Benedict Arnold, Wordsworth, Mohammar Qaddafi, and Bach. You don't even really find out what the chess set does until after the first 300 pages or so. I finished it only because I had invested so much time in it. I will say that by the end, there's a good pay off that ties everything together, but after 600 pages, it's just too little too late.
