| Sepulchre (MP3 CD) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kate Mosse
Creator: Lorelei King
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  103 reviews
Sales Rank: 854584
Format: Audiobook, Mp3 Audio
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0752890123
EAN: 9780752890128
ASIN: 0752890123
Publication Date: November 29, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 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'.
missed opportunity November 12, 2008
I think I have been reading an unedited version, either that of the book was simply never edited. Which is a damn shame, because the grammatical errors alone are enough to annoy the heck out of you and it would have been nice if an editor or proofreader could have dealt with the structural errors in the story as well. It is really not great writing. Having said that I somehow still managed to enjoy the book so it wasn't all a big loss, but it really could have been so much better!
Awful waste November 6, 2008
Well I bought this book thinking I'd seen it on so many bestseller shelves in bookshops that it should be good.
Wrong! Well, not totally wrong... The underlying story was quite good, although I too much preferred the flashback chapters to the present day cringing romantic drivel.
But there is some utterly annoying writing in this book. For instance - and this is the main annoyance - random, needless insertion of French words. It's so goddamn pretentious it physically made me cringe. Fair enough, in dialogue, a French phrase here and there adds to the ambience, but to have random French words in descriptive paragraphs is wholly unneccesary and, well, cheesy.
And then we get to the end... Total, total disappointment.
Please don't buy this. Not if you like reading. If you don't like reading then you probably enjoyed Dan Brown's books and so maybe this is right up your street.
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