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This was much better than I thought it would be. Grail books seem to be a dime a dozen since Da Vinci Code and I expected this one to be entertaini... (show more)
Labyrinth
July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth.
Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, a... (show more)
July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth.
Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. Now, as crusading armies gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take a tremendous sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe. (show less)
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I'm not one to give up on a book but this was such a pile of you know what it ended up on the shelf when I was about the third of the way in.
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I'm not one to give up on a book but this was such a pile of you know what it ended up on the shelf when I was about the third of the way in.
I'm sure the promotion on Richard and Judy boosted sales of this awful book in the UK, it certainly can't have been word of mouth! If any one is reading this review with the thought of reading this book, please don't bother, I'm sure Kate Mosse could do a lot better but I guess she had made a fortune out of this book and quite honestly I doubt she cares about what I think! (show less)
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I’ll just state straight out that I did not like this book. I didn’t hate it, but reading it was a chore every step of the way.
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse is a long, long book. Almost 700 pages. Unnecessarily long. Mosse likes to describe every bloody thing in the book. Every flower that the main character Alais looks at, from its colour to the way it slopes in the wind, is described, and I just don’t care.
It’s a semi-interesting story. The bandwagon plot of protecting/discovering the Grail... (show more)
I’ll just state straight out that I did not like this book. I didn’t hate it, but reading it was a chore every step of the way.
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse is a long, long book. Almost 700 pages. Unnecessarily long. Mosse likes to describe every bloody thing in the book. Every flower that the main character Alais looks at, from its colour to the way it slopes in the wind, is described, and I just don’t care.
It’s a semi-interesting story. The bandwagon plot of protecting/discovering the Grail (authors really need to stop with this one now). It really only gets good in the last 100 pages, and the whole story could have been told in that space.
It’s small positive parts are heavily outweighed by the crap. The length, the predictability, the stupid parallels (Alais/Alice, please). Not recommended. (show less)
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Short review: Utter shite.
Long review: Painfully simplisitic language that appears as little more than an extended 'Janet & John' reader. I don't think I've read a book since I was 5 that attempted to create dramatic tension through the almost excluse use of sentences beginning 'Suddenly, ...'.
Likewise, scenes are not set by starting a paragraph with 'One day...' and other related devices, nor is mystique spun up through the use of foreign names alone.
I found this book woefull... (show more)
Short review: Utter shite.
Long review: Painfully simplisitic language that appears as little more than an extended 'Janet & John' reader. I don't think I've read a book since I was 5 that attempted to create dramatic tension through the almost excluse use of sentences beginning 'Suddenly, ...'.
Likewise, scenes are not set by starting a paragraph with 'One day...' and other related devices, nor is mystique spun up through the use of foreign names alone.
I found this book woefully lacking in any kind of excitement or pace, although if you're looking for a book suitable for kids or as a prop in a book-burning re-enactment then this is the one for you. (show less)
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