Sepulchre by Kate Mosse

[thesaneminority]

Comments

[mummimamma]

I liked this better than her other book (whose the name escapes me), although that is not saying much. But I don't understand why on earth the 2007 plot was there at all. It just made the book more boring and longer. I think the writer thinks readers are unable to relate to a book unless it has
a) a contemporary person who explains everything for us, since we are unable to understand the past unmediated.
b) a love plot (totally out of the blue as it was).

[lizarina21]

I'm reading this book now and actually enjoying it. Maybe I'm a readerfail?

What does get me is how drastically Mosse's writing style changes between the 1891 and 2007 sections. There's more flow in the Leonie/Anatole/Isolde dialogue and descriptions, but the language in Meredith's section feels rather abrupt.

[thesaneminority]

Honestly, I think if she'd just cut out the 2007 plot entirely, it would have been a lot better. Still annoying, but better.

[sleep_aurora]

I bought both this and her first book Labyrinth together at the used book store. And I really wish I hadn't. I got about 100 pages into Labyrinth and absolutely hated it so much that I put it down. I can usually struggle through a book but this was not happening. The writing style was horrendous, the grammar and sentence structure abysmal, you get the idea. I guess I don't have much to add, other than to agree with thesaneminority and congratulate you for actually finishing the book - something I couldn't bring myself to do.

[thesaneminority]

Honestly, I only really finished it because I didn't have anything else to read.