Kate Mosse
Hardcover | Pages: 560 pages Rating: 3.76 | 18230 Users | 1388 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Sepulchre |
| ISBN: | 0752860550 (ISBN13: 9780752860558) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.sepulchre.co.uk |
| Series: | Languedoc #2 |
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I n 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive in the beautiful town of Rennes-les-Bains, in southwest France. They've come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose mountain estate, Domain de la Cade, is famous in the region. But it soon becomes clear that their aunt Isolde-and the Domain-are not what Léonie had imagined. The villagers claim that Isolde's late husband died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre high on the mountainside. A book from the Domain's cavernous library describes the strange tarot pack that mysteriously disappeared following the uncle's death. But while Léonie delves deeper into the ancient mysteries of the Domain, a different evil stalks her family-one which may explain why Léonie and Anatole were invited to the sinister Domain in the first place. More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in France to study the life of Claude Debussy, the nineteenth century French composer. In Rennesles- Bains, Meredith checks into a grand old hotel-the Domain de la Cade. Something about the hotel feels eerily familiar, and strange dreams and visions begin to haunt Meredith's waking hours. A chance encounter leads her to a pack of tarot cards painted by Léonie Vernier, which may hold the key to this twenty-first century American's fate . . . just as they did to the fate of Léonie Vernier more than a century earlier.Itemize Of Books Sepulchre (Languedoc #2)
| Title | : | Sepulchre (Languedoc #2) |
| Author | : | Kate Mosse |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 560 pages |
| Published | : | October 31st 2007 by Orion |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. Fantasy |
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Ratings: 3.76 From 18230 Users | 1388 ReviewsCriticize Of Books Sepulchre (Languedoc #2)
Okay, now that Ive taken some time to think about this book, I might as well review it. So, WHAT THE HELL? I am more than a little annoyed with historical fantasy as a genre, it always disappoints me. The former half of the narrative never meets with the latter. Do authors forget their own stories? Are they trying to pull a Dickens? Do they get money by the word? Why do I have to sit through 500 pages worth of sludge only to find out that I wouldve understood the denouement even if I had onlyAlthough I found Labyrinth a bit of a struggle, I enjoyed the basic idea of it (two stories, seperated by time, linked in mysterious ways). Which is lucky, as this is more of the same, but - in my humble opinion - better written and more compelling. Gone is Labyrinth's constant repetition - that, I imagine, was symbolic of the story repeating through the ages but which, quite frankly, got on my nerves.France is gloriously and passionately evoked, and the characters of the 1891 story are rounded
I gave this book a 2, although maybe a 2.5 as, in comparison to Labyrinth and Winter Ghosts, I was not nearly as aggravated by the style and characters. By the way, although the books are touted as a trilogy they are really unrelated except for location and, what some others have called, time-slip. So the order read, or even not reading at all, is no actual loss to the reader. In fact, this story itself was weakened by the forced inclusion of the entire time-slip attempt, as there was plenty of
After labyrinth, this book was a kind of a major let down. All that information was also not new to me, as I have already researched quite a bit about Tarots. The information itself was pretty rudimentary, nothing deep or fascinating.The major problem with this work was that, Mosse clearly had a nice interesting vision or premise in her mind. She inept at transferring that vision to paper or else, her vision was as skewed as her tale. There was too much of repetetion, lots of cliches, very
A surprisingly quick read, despite the thickness of the book! Sepulchre is quite entertaining and I actually enjoyed it a lot more than Mosse's first book, Labyrinth. That said, the plot is a bit clumsy sometimes and the present-day heroine is not a very interesting character. One more thing: there are so many mistakes in the French text that I'm wondering if anyone actually copy-edited the book (if they did, their French is obviously very poor!). There are also quite a few clichés about life in
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.Kate Mosse's Sepulchre is a historical fantasy -- historical fiction with fantastic elements. I enjoy both genres, and this novel features a female graduate student (somebody I can relate to) as one of the main characters, and it's available on audiobook, so I thought it would be good entertainment on my commute. I got about ten chapters in before quitting.The book seems well-researched, is competently written, the tone switches easily and successfully
Compelled by the act of an innocent girl in a graveyard in Paris, something is moving within the stone sepulchre. Long forgotten in the tangled and overgrown alleyways of the Domaine de la Cade, something is waking. To the casual observer it would appear no more than a trick of the light in the fading afternoon, but for a fleeting instant, the plaster statues appear to breathe, to move, to sigh.And the portraits on the cards that lie buried beneath the earth and stone, where the river runs dry,
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