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A review by ankysbookbubble
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
4.0
Short Blurb:
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.
Cover Review:
The cover is something I'd love to include in my bookshelf. It looks really beautiful, not to mention artistic. It has a certain 'old book' charm to it.
Review:
I'm not sure whether I really liked this book or not. There were certain times when I really loved the novel, and others were I got so bored. Maybe that's why it took so long for me to finish reading it.
It was good enough that I didn't want to completely drop it. The writer managed to write in two different time frames quite smoothly, using different styles for both the time frames.
On the other hand, I found the descriptions too lenghty. Five to six pages describing the atmosphere of Carcassonne after the war? Uh-oh. I skimmed most of those pages, noting that there was nothing worth bothering about there.
The plot of the book was quite interesting, and the suspense held on till the end, but sometimes the story got too slow paced.
Labyrinth gets 3.5 Stars, and credit goes to the beautiful cover, and the suspense that managed to build up, despite the slow pace.
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.
Cover Review:
The cover is something I'd love to include in my bookshelf. It looks really beautiful, not to mention artistic. It has a certain 'old book' charm to it.
Review:
I'm not sure whether I really liked this book or not. There were certain times when I really loved the novel, and others were I got so bored. Maybe that's why it took so long for me to finish reading it.
It was good enough that I didn't want to completely drop it. The writer managed to write in two different time frames quite smoothly, using different styles for both the time frames.
On the other hand, I found the descriptions too lenghty. Five to six pages describing the atmosphere of Carcassonne after the war? Uh-oh. I skimmed most of those pages, noting that there was nothing worth bothering about there.
The plot of the book was quite interesting, and the suspense held on till the end, but sometimes the story got too slow paced.
Labyrinth gets 3.5 Stars, and credit goes to the beautiful cover, and the suspense that managed to build up, despite the slow pace.