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Labyrinth
by Kate Mosse
from Berkley Trade

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Nice idea, almost nicely executed...
  Just finished reading this rather voluminous book. Let's face it - it was OK, leaning towards good. Here's how.
  The basic premise of the book is the search for the Grail (yes, another one!). Of course all ideas are original, just that some are rather less original than others. Keeping snide remarks aside, the book does have its strong points, and one must give credit where it deserves.
  Kate Mosse has dexterously managed to weave a yarn, stretching (quite thin at times, if you ask me!) over more... more info

• Couldn't get through this.
  This book starts out good but just fizzles out. It didn't hold my interest at all. Too dry. I like to be inside a story, not outside looking from a distance.

• I couldn't finish it
  it's rare for me, but I couldn't finish this book. by page 150, I simply did not care at all about the characters or what was going to happen to them. I actually bought the book for my husband, who asked for it for his birthday, even though all I had to do was read the cover and realize he'd hate it. which he did--he stopped at page 150 too. Everything was incredibly predictable, the characters were one-dimensional (at best), and completely unsympathetic. The heroine(s) were the kind of women who only exist... more info

• Very disappointing
  I bought the book to read on a business trip to Toulouse with a chance for a quick visit to Carcassonne. Having always been interested in history, and wanting to read about the Cathars, I looked forward to reading this book. I was vastly disappointed. The plot is very badly executed, suddenly there is talk about the gral. The reader is not led towards finding out about the gral, there is no hints, no real explanation till the end. The idea behind the book is not bad, but the way the book is written was not... more info

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