2008-09-29 Same plot, different story....

Is it only me or is Sepulchre more or less identical to Labyrinth? I'm ploughing through it, skim-reading quite a lot of it admittedly, but when Shelah O'Donnell turns up and "an incident in the Sabarthes mountains in 2005" is mentioned, the ENTIRE plot of Labyrinth comes back to me, rather than me just thinking it was tediously similar. Audric Baillard is, of course, still floating around too! I'm finding myself now trying to recap on the earlier book, rather than wondering what's going to happen next in this one, which is surely not good!

Its going to be hard work in order to finish the "final" 250 pages, which is such a shame. Kate Mosse could be an extremely competent and actually very good historical writer, as she's clearly very well-read, intelligent woman.

739 pages do not necessarily make a good book!