Reviews

Citadel by Kate Mosse

retrana2011's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

bigbizliz1991's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, and Death

jholloed's review

3.0

Not nearly as good as the others, certainly not enough to stand on its own, it seems an odd sort of conclusion for the series. The epilogue does wrap in previous books, but not well. Personally, I could have done without the dark ages story line, it didn't contribute much and just broke up the main story line and delayed getting back to the strong main story with the resistance fighters. The story line in world war 2 was superb, driven well, with a strong action element, and a love story that read true to the end. Glad I finished the series, but it seems an unnecessarily long read. Would hesitate to read again from this author

shelitelschow's review

3.0

This book was soooo long. And then the ending pissed me off. The previous two books were much better.

juhpiter_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Gun violence, War, Physical abuse, Torture, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Police brutality, Death, Suicide, and Violence

mlgallegos's review

4.0

The end of this one sucker punched me. It felt slower than Labyrinth and Sepulchre - maybe because I couldn't devote the time to finish it in one fell swoop this time, though - but the journey felt more complete.

It was a little frustrating, however, because Labyrinth takes place after Citadel, despite being the first book in the series. It felt like this was the finale, despite knowing Audric wouldn't see the end of his story for another sixty years.

Side note - I love the continuation of the Alice/William pairs throughout the stories. Elise and Guillame, Alice and William, Alais and Guilhelm. It was a neat detail that I enjoyed finding.

leavingsealevel's review

2.0

Another historically inaccurate novel about strong women standing up to Nazis. This seems to be my thing at the moment. Apparently Citadel is the third book in a series...this dawned upon me about 100 pages in when all of a sudden strange supernatural spiritual things started happening. Without having read books 1 and 2, there was a whole plot line that I didn't really get. Luckily, the book is about 100000 pages long so even without that plot line I was reasonably entertained.

rioyoung's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

michael_k's review

4.0

It was great! It's very balanced and I think it nicely completes the circle.

dhaag11's review

5.0

This really is the perfect conclusion to the trilogy. An absolutely beautiful series. Kate's incredible talent for storytelling truly comes out in this series.