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* Grumpy spoilers! *Arghhh. This book was readable, but all-in-all, pretty bad. Main gripes were:1) Language. The constant French phrases in italics grated on me massively. Why italicise them? Or even better, why have them at all? The characters are French, yet speak English apart from to throw out the odd French word, like Anatole constantly calling Leonie 'petite'. Do it in English, or do it in French...no need for both. Definitely no need for italics as if the reader is so moronic that they w...
”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,...
4 stars to Sepulchre by Kate Mosse, the second in the "Languedoc" historical fiction (maybe a little fantasy) series. After I read the first book, I had to follow through on this one. And recently, I learned the third one was published a few years ago. I didn't know there was another... but I will definitely finish this series. It takes place in the French mountains, how could you not love it?The story is very complex, but very strong. The characters are memorable. The struggle between the past
Thank goodness it's over. Léonie has to be one of the most irritating female characters I've read in a while: she wants to be considered an adult (being a 17-year-old girl in France in 1891) and yet consistently behaves like a child. When she is caught and (rightly) chided, she throws a tantrum worthy of a toddler. Every time, up until the last 50 or so pages, only a chapter is devoted to her actual emotion growth--which would have made a far more interesting story. Even Léonie's aunt Isodel had...
October 1891: a young Leonie Vernier and her brother, Anatole, are invited to leave gas-lit streets of Paris and travel to stay in the south at Domaine de la Cade, the home of their aunt. In the ancient, dark woods, Leonie comes across a ruined sepulchre and is drawn into a century-old mystery of murder, ghosts and a strange set of tarot cards that seem to hold enormous power over life and death.October 2007; Meredith Martin decides to take a break from her research trip to Paris, where she is w...
Loved it! Read it years ago too.
The things I didn't like about this book far oughtweighed the good that there was in it for me, I liked how it was based around a fictional tarot, characters included a violinist and an archaeologist (I like reading about what I do, then who doesn't?). I got it in easons on the 7.99 table on the premise of it being cheap, & that I liked the idea of it. Quelle erreur! the description at the back was misleading. Characters contradiciting themselves frequently; there were many instances that sugges...
A Great Audio BookSince I listened to snippets of this book over a couple of weeks commuting here and there,I can't testify to the writing as much as to the well-read presentation of the audiobook. I enjoyed the novel's 1890s sections more than the present-day story that overlaps setting and plot. Many times I lifted an eyebrow at the contrived plot or why characters did what they did, but the book kept me engaged enough that even when I wasn't in the car, I sometimes thought of the protagonist,...
I read Labyrinth by Kate mosse years ago but never got around to reading more of her books until now. Sepulchre is set in a similar SW region of France (mostly, there are some chapters early on in Paris) and has two timelines . The earlier timeline is 1891 and centres around Léonie and her brother Anatole. The modern timeline follows Meredith an American researching the composer Debussy and also her family history. The book alternates between the two stories and it is a chunkster. There’s lots o...
Okay. I would not have picked up this book, except for the fact that I'm currently in Cambodia and reading materials are thin on the ground, so one is forced to make do with whatever crosses one's path. First of, be warned that this book contains a beautiful heroine whose "silken hair" falls to her "slender waist" - I generally take beautiful, slender-waisted, silken-haired heroines as a warning that there will be very little character development. Also that the writing will probably be trite, b...
Saddened! I enjoyed the first novel but it read like an encyclopedia, I had hoped listening to this in audio would help...NOPE! Felt like I was sitting through a lecture, and listening to directions via Google...Who knew a tarot reading could be so boring...
There are many types of ghosts. Those who cannot rest because they have done wrong, who must seek forgiveness or atonement. Also those to whom wrong has been done and who are condemned to walk until they find an agent of justice to speak their cause. This book has been sitting on my bookshelf way too long. Because once I l started reading, I just couldn't stop! A dual narrative, alternating between 1891 and 2007, Sepulchre explores the supernatural world and those who try to bend it to their wil...
Eh, I've read worse. But I've also read much better.Despite some intriguing motifs & settings, this book is bloated with extraneous detail & hampered by flat characters. Even the most dramatic moments never manage to engage the reader beyond a momentary blip of acceptance. Example: "Oops, that crazy dude is dead. Wait, what? You're saying some tarot cards & a vaguely-described devil killed him? ...Oh well." Somewhere in this book is a decent gothic novel -- but it's trying way too hard. People b...
