StarAstrologer - Books : Sepulchre
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780399154676
ISBN: 0399154671
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: April 01, 2008
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Sales Rank: 20684
Studio: Putnam Adult
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From the author of the New York Times– bestselling novel Labyrinth comes another haunting tale of secrets, murder, and the occult set in both nineteenth-century and twenty-first-century France.
I n 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive in the beautiful town of Rennes-les-Bains, in southwest France. They’ve come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose mountain estate, Domain de la Cade, is famous in the region. But it soon becomes clear that their aunt Isolde—and the Domain—are not what Léonie had imagined. The villagers claim that Isolde’s late husband died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre high on the mountainside. A book from the Domain’s cavernous library describes the strange tarot pack that mysteriously disappeared following the uncle’s death. But while Léonie delves deeper into the ancient mysteries of the Domain, a different evil stalks her family—one which may explain why Léonie and Anatole were invited to the sinister Domain in the first place.
More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in France to study the life of Claude Debussy, the nineteenth century French composer. In Rennesles- Bains, Meredith checks into a grand old hotel—the Domain de la Cade. Something about the hotel feels eerily familiar, and strange dreams and visions begin to haunt Meredith’s waking hours. A chance encounter leads her to a pack of tarot cards painted by Léonie Vernier, which may hold the key to this twenty-first century American’s fate . . . just as they did to the fate of Léonie Vernier more than a century earlier.
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After I finished reading it, purposely, I put the book aside for three days, waiting to see how I really feel about it. Now, still, all I want to say is that this is a good book. I admire the author's talent imagination, which turn a dull apologue into a graphic and iridescent melodrama. The writing is so excellent, so stylish, with its vividly detailed descriptions throughout the book. It presents various tableaux viands of French societies over one hundred years ago and nowadays, although the descriptions, ... Read More
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I don't know, maybe I have super powers or something because I was able to predict exactly what was going to happen in this book one to two hundred pages before it actually happened. I found the characters to be as two-dimensional as tarot cards; the lovers love, justice is just, and the villans are villanous. The story line plods down the path like an old milk-horse, and the path it's on is straight and flat. I have no problem with lyrical descriptions, but I could have gotten more suspense from reading an article ... Read More
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I love intellectual thrillers. What could be better than to open the book and look for clues to the mysteries in a mix of a historical and literature references? Add to this a huge dose of occult, some romantic love, a lot of French fleur and you sure will have a book that is impossible to put down. The recipe is definitely one that is used in "Sepulchre".
However, after finishing the book I felt that most ingredients were overused here.
To begin with, I love French history, got my four-week ... Read More
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This book was absolutely wonderful. I was sad to see it come to an end. What a fantastic journey. I can't wait to read Kate Mosse's next book.
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"Sepulchre" has an ominous and chilling opening, an action-packed first few chapters with such rich historical detail and so many compelling characters, the plot could have gone in several directions. Smart, well researched, heavily layered; this was almost a perfect literary thriller. It missed the mark by a (copper colored) hair.
Like A. S. Byatt's "Possession", the genre's gold standard, "Sepulchre" links the nineteenth century and the present day. A deck of tarot cards, some faded photographs and a mysterious ... Read More
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