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Kate Mosse: Labyrinth (2007, Berkely Trade) 3 stars

In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives …

Review of 'Labyrinth' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Oh dear me this was awful. I only picked up this book because it is hugely popular, and the series has got rather large so I thought there must be something good here right?

Things got off to a bad start, a scene where a woman has cut herself and a drop of blood lands on her leg, all quite normal for a book, but for some reason it is described as looking like a firework going off...why do we need that extra-long description? This wasn't enough for Mosse, a bigger description was needed, she specifies the day that the "blood firework" goes off. I couldn't take this book seriously after that, I kept laughing at the many extra words used...cheese kept being described as white again and again and a young lady's hair was tumbling one second and then writhing like a snake the next. The whole thing felt like a school kid doing an English essay and trying to get the word count up so they could go out to play.

I could see there was potential for a plot, but the book was way too slow for me to spot anything of interest happening, into the bin with it.