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The Serpent
The Serpent: Gameshouse Novella 1 | Claire North
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In 17th Century Venice exists a mysterious establishment known only as the Gameshouse. There, fortunes are made and fortunes are broken over games of chess, backgammon and every other game under the sun. But those whom fortune favours may be invited to compete in the higher league . . . a league where the games played are of politics and empires, of economics and kings. It is a league where Capture the Castle involves real castles, where hide and seek takes place on a scale as big as the British Isles. Not everyone proves worthy of competing in the higher league. But one woman, who is about to play, may just exceed everyone's expectations. Though she must always remember: the higher the stakes, the more deadly the rules . . .
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AlaMich
AlaMich
The Serpent (The Gameshouse, #1) | Claire North
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I‘m about halfway through this. It‘s the first of three novellas that were combined to create The Gameshouse. I loved the premise: a casino on steroids in Venice where, if you are chosen, you compete with others to enter “the higher league.” But the story is told using an odd, omniscient narrator device in a style that gets very grating. And the writer thinks she is just a bit more of a wordsmith than she actually is. #kobo ⬇️

AlaMich Claire North is also the author of The Fifteen Lives of Harry August, though Claire North is actually a pen name. 4y
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amma-keep-reading
amma-keep-reading
The Serpent: Gameshouse Novella 1 | Claire North
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Audiobook. I am officially a Claire North fan. Two books read and both five stars. I'm going to finish this series and move on to her stand-alone novels.

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Moray_Reads
Moray_Reads
The Serpent: Gameshouse Novella 1 | Claire North
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Claire North (aka Catherine Webb and) Kate Griffin is an accomplished and imaginative writer. I loved her Matthew Swift books but her more recent work has passed me by. Her ideas are great and the Machiavellian Renaissance intrigue fast-paced and complex but the tone was too removed to really engage me and made the characters difficult to separate from their circumstances. #LRC16 #litsyreadingchallenge

saresmoore Thank you for recommending her. I had fun tumbling down the Goodreads rabbit hole of researching her work under THREE names. Ha! Each of her author profiles has a different photo! 7y
Moray_Reads @saresmoore I know. I've never come across a writer with THREE pen-names! 7y
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