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But in her relentless quest for atmosphere, Kate Mosse leaves no t uncrossed, no i undotted. I ploughed through the book to the bitter end, but the amount of irrelevant detail with which the narrative was overburdened made it tedious, whereas if it had been two-thirds its length I might have quite enjoyed it.

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One person found this helpful. The beginning is a tad boring. This is my first Kate Mosse book and I was quite satisfied. The beginning is a tad boring , but sets the background and characters well. Ms Martins is a very identifiable heroine.

The author moves between past and present , which means at times the reader knows more than the protagonist but that doesn't really harm the story line. I found the two parallel storylines fascinating , although the one in the present wasn't really a mystery. Ms Mosse knows her art by God.. See all 3 reviews.

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Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Fusion is the current buzzword implying a blending of essences, be it people, places, religion, music, food, etc. Other such words include cusp, transition, morphing, etc. So fusion is a good word to describe this book: Now, did I like the book? I personally loved it! Not great literature, if you're looking at semantics, but it is a great story, featuring two sets of characters from two different time periods, but the same locations predominately Paris and the Carcassone region of France.

My problem with the book is this: I wish editors would include illustrations, where appropriate, for adult novels because this book really needs them. One of the main ideas of the story is the use of Tarot cards and its influence on others, if they believe in Tarot or not.

Now, I happen to follow Tarot, and I believe the author did a commendable job of discussing Tarot in her story. But if you, the reader, know nothing about Tarot, you might just blank out at the passages that contain references to it. In any case, for me it was a page turner. Music, Tarot cards, Victorian Paris, and the supernatural. Mosse alternates a highly detailed overly so saga of Leonie Vernier and her family s with the modern day Meredith Martin who is researching the biography of Claude Debussy. I found this back and forth between these two time periods to weaken the story and suspense because the Meredith storyline was so boring.

The beginning is a tad boring , but sets the background and characters well. Ms Martins is a very identifiable heroine. The author moves between past and present , which means at times the reader knows more than the protagonist but that doesn't really harm the story line. I found the two parallel storylines fascinating , although the one in the present wasn't really a mystery. Ms Mosse knows her art by God.. See all 3 reviews.

Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Fusion is the current buzzword implying a blending of essences, be it people, places, religion, music, food, etc. Other such words include cusp, transition, morphing, etc. So fusion is a good word to describe this book: Now, did I like the book? I personally loved it! Not great literature, if you're looking at semantics, but it is a great story, featuring two sets of characters from two different time periods, but the same locations predominately Paris and the Carcassone region of France.

My problem with the book is this: I wish editors would include illustrations, where appropriate, for adult novels because this book really needs them. One of the main ideas of the story is the use of Tarot cards and its influence on others, if they believe in Tarot or not.

Now, I happen to follow Tarot, and I believe the author did a commendable job of discussing Tarot in her story. But if you, the reader, know nothing about Tarot, you might just blank out at the passages that contain references to it. In any case, for me it was a page turner. Music, Tarot cards, Victorian Paris, and the supernatural. Mosse alternates a highly detailed overly so saga of Leonie Vernier and her family s with the modern day Meredith Martin who is researching the biography of Claude Debussy.

I found this back and forth between these two time periods to weaken the story and suspense because the Meredith storyline was so boring. Mosse is a master at descriptive prose. The ending was anticlimactic so I was disappointed after such a long and tedious read. Just shy of excellent. Concerns of the French in the book didn't give me trouble after 4 years in high school, enough to help me through.

This is set up like Mosse's 1st novel with connections between a present day "heroine" and one of an earlier time. The story bounces between present day and turn-of-the-century southern France in the Languedoc literally "language of Oc", spoken there hundreds of years before. The characters were, in my humble opinion, quite well written; I did find the characters in the past slightly more interesting than those of the present.

The characters are tied by a secret that revolves around the ancient "art" of tarot.

I don't personally believe in tarot or astrology or things of the sort, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the book; if anything, my lack of knowledge on the subject made it all the more interesting. It is hard to write a review of this book with any detail without spoiling the story so I shall not give my usual summary so as to leave the mystery there should you read it. All I will say is that the book is thick with suspense, bouncing forward or back at just the right moment so that you remain continually frustrated when you must wait to return to the other characters or timeframe.

Mosse has a gift, in my humble opinion, for writing characters with substance. I wish I could play the piano and hear it's I assume haunting permeations. The body of a young man floating in the River Aude.

A nervous woman sitting in a damask-draped room. A smiling man in the shadows. Four different people, scattered across France, scattered across the ages. The only link, the painted tarot cards they hold SEPULCHRE is a spellbinding adventure that carries us back from the present day in the French spa-town of Rennes-les-Bains, first to the 19th century, and then further back into the stories of the ancient kings buried there with their treasure.

For those who stumble upon the cards, unravelling the mystery of the painted deck will take them on a treacherous journey of forbidden knowledge, the power of the church and the pull of the occult.