Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
My ranking: 4 of 5 stars
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse is e book one of many Languedoc trilogy. There’s a twin time setting— current day (2005) and eight hundred years earlier.
It begins with an accident at an archaeological dig within the Pyrenean mountains. A hidden tomb is found by Alice, which units off a harmful chain of occasions.
The second storyline is ready in 1209 and begins within the metropolis of Carcassona. There’s an impending spiritual struggle between Catholics and Cathars. Alais is the daughter of a noble, a secret guardian of The Grail. Within the battle that follows, Alais smuggles numerous artefacts to security. Nonetheless, adversaries search The Grail’s powers for themselves, and Alais is compelled into hiding.
Eight hundred years later Alice additionally finds herself at risk from those that proceed to hunt the ability of The Grail.
It is a lengthy e book at over 5 hundred pages, and I discovered myself skipping slower elements. I most popular the sooner setting and story moderately than the modern-day one as I discovered it troublesome to search out any empathy for Alice. It was solely in the direction of the very finish as the 2 tales started to converge that I grew to become actually keen to hold on studying.
Total, I preferred the concept of the e book, however I assumed it was too lengthy which diluted the motion and essential components.
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Within the Pyrenees mountains close to Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles right into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, unusual writings on the partitions, and the sample of a labyrinth. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal campaign that may rip aside southern France, a younger lady named Alais is given a hoop and a mysterious e book for safekeeping by her father. The e book, he says, accommodates the key of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will determine a guardian of the Grail. Now, as crusading armies collect outdoors the town partitions of Carcassonne, it’ll take an amazing sacrifice to maintain the key of the labyrinth secure.
