Labyrinth

I love long books. I love strange or even medieval settings in a book. But this was painful.
Before reading the book flip to the acknowledgements in the book. There Mosse thanks her "patient" editor. I say her "patient and fully useless" editor. Aren't editors supposed to make suggestions to limit redundant sentence structure and description? At one point the author is describing the main character going down the hall to the spy on someone and every aspect of the hall is described but to no known effect or need. Get on with it!
What is this Dickens, where you get paid for every additional word you can squeeze out?
Terribly written.

I read sepulchre first and I think it made me appreciate the plot of labyrinth more because the plots intertwine. I felt connected to the characters and really enjoy the way she works in the present day and the characters from the past. It is an interesting read and you have to pay attention to details while you read or else you might miss some important information. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading.

Don't believe the cover blurbs. Not worth the time. Long, drawn-out, disjointed & poorly written to the point that I laughed out loud at it several times. The only good part is the well- researched history of the Cathars.

OK book. Certainly not the worst I have ever read, but not the best by far. Pretty much figured out what was going on by page 12, which sucks in a book that has more that 600 pages! The writing was good, but she did tend to go on and on and on in far more detail than necessary. Despite the size it is a pretty quick read, so if you want a book just to pass the time, this one works.

Like the first reviewer, I picked this book up from Chapters because I was looking for something thick to read. "Labyrinth" disappointed me greatly. All the characters, especially the "heroines" are extremely flat and two dimensional... I find their reactions to the perils they had to face HILARIOUS. The villains were no better.
If you want a good history conspiracy novel, do NOT waste you life on this. If you want a melodrama/noir novel with some deaths involved, try this one.

For any women that has read and enjoyed the Divinci Code - this is a must read!! I purchased the TP and the illustraded hard cover of this one.

Browsing through Chapters, I picked this up only becuase it was so large. I was looking for something thick to keep me occupied and hope there would be some great character development.

I wasn't at all disappointed and quickly became quite engaged in the characters and their stories. It was interesting to see the parallel between the present and past. The concept of the Holy Grail in this novel is interesting and you find yourself quickly hooked to the protagonists and their courage through their trials.

I found this novel really interesting as it flipped back and forth between the past and the present. The storyline is somewhat difficult to follow through the first three quarters of the book - but that last quarter makes it all worthwhile. The ending pulls it all together and finishes the story. Anyone who likes a nice long read with a great ending should read this book.

This is the type of book I read and deem it mediochre until I get to the end...And the ending is just so beautiful and cumulative that it was worth reading after all and it will be much greater the second time around when I can see where it's going. Pros were Lovely heroines, evil detestable she-devil villains, utterly fall head over heels in love with heros and the sweetest love story I've seen in a while.. Cons were the needlessly ugly angry gag reflexing sexual content and equally needless and gag reflexing descriptions of dastardly deeds done by the crusaders. And although I didn't mind them, the pages of long historical explanations for certain things were a little uncreative at times. Over all I'll recommend it, if you get discouraged half way through or disgusted, just make yourself keep reading because it is definately worth it at the end.