There are so many things wrong with it that it's difficult to know where to start, but let's begin with the characters.Īlais/Alice are Mary-Sues. In fact, it was a chore to have to continue through all 694 pages of leaden, plodding, sub-par Mary-Sue fiction and I blame Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code for opening the door to this kind of pseudo-literary dross. I really, completely, utterly hated this book. Somehow, a link to a horrific past - her past - has been revealed. Puzzled by the labyrinth symbol carved in the rock, she realises she's disturbed something that was meant to remain hidden. July 2005: Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons in a forgotten cave in the French Pyrenees. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe. I don't think I'll try another book by this author.July 1209: in Carcassonne a seventeeen-year old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail.
After trying to get through Labyrinth I'm glad that it wasn't. I read The Winter Ghosts by the same author recently and really enjoyed it, and felt that it should have been longer. I get that the author knew what she was talking about she wrote 500 pages about it. It reminded me of when you write assignments at school and you have to put quotes and references in to prove you know what you're talking about. The thing that finally stopped me from reading was the amount of French phrases throughout it. I did try to get through it but it felt like a chore to read. After reading that many pages of a book you should feel like you know the characters, but they bored me. The main characters lacked personality and I didn't like any of them. It could have done with a very thorough edit before it made it to print. It was incredibly slow-going and the flowery prose, littered with cliche, odd word usage and unnecessary description, was hard work to read. I abandoned this book about a fifth of the way in. I've been wanting to read it for a while, but noticed it shortly after I'd finished reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, and as it sounded similar I decided to leave it a while before I picked it up.
I was really disappointed with this book.
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