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Sepulchre | 
| Author: Kate Mosse
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  105 reviews
Sales Rank: 65901
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 2.3
ISBN: 0752860550
EAN: 9780752860558
ASIN: 0752860550
Publication Date: October 31, 2007
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 lost the will to carry on December 31, 2008
Having read Labyrinthe, I was looking forward to Sepulchre. It started reasonably well with a mix of action and description. However it soon plummeted into description only. I gave it a good go, but I'm now at page 300 and have lost the will to continue. Having been written by an English author I found the usage of US words instead of the expected English equivalents very annoying. Eg when storing suitcases in my car i usually put them in the boot not the trunk!
Seems I am not alone! December 29, 2008
Having read Labyrinth and thought that was a reasonable read, I picked up Sepulchure expecting similar but found this book tedious, irritating and very lightweight - would not make the ranks of a beach read.
I just kept hoping the story would pick up, the plot was so thin and the characters of no substance, but it did not so I baled out before I had reached halfway.
I was also irritated by the amount of product placement - have authors opened up another income stream? Do I really want to know that she was wearing and Abercrombie & Fitch sweat-shirt - just one example.
Read this book at your peril!
 sepulchre November 26, 2008
I loved this book....yes its a little complex but you soon get used to the past and the presant, i actually thought it better than labrynth i thought the story line was chilling and gripping and i thought the research was excellent. not a book to be read by the easily confused though.
 Pretentious and Lazy November 23, 2008
I was not so irritated by the grammar, as by the laziness of the construction.
For a writer who used to be an editor, this is particularly disappointing. Is this another case of a publisher being frightened to tell a million-selling author what they really need to hear? As a member of a writing group, myself, I would offer the advice that if a paragraph begins "He/She had..." then Stop! You just know you are in for an info-dump. A writer at this level ought really to be able to find better ways of getting the background across. If not, then maybe there is too much unnecessary background.
Which is arguably the case. What was the point, really, of involving Debussy? It gave the novel pretentions that it really did not live up to.
I gave up reading this, too... November 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I know people don't like someone writing a review if they haven't read the full book, but personally I think if a mystery can't hold your interest enough to make you finish, then that says more than anything else could. I was so hopeful for this at first - the prologue, all about the "city of bones", was so atmospheric. But ten more pages in, the description had got too much. I think a skilled writer can evoke a scene with one or two well-placed sentences, rather than resorting to page after page of narrative. The "mystery" also wasn't very compelling - I didn't really care about either of the two main female characters or what happened to them. After 100 pages, I wondered how I was ever going to get to the end. After 320 I decided it was time to throw in the towel - and I HATE not finishing books! Instead, I switched to the eminently more readable page-turner, Maeve Binchy's 'Light a Penny Candle'.
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