6/10/2023 0 Comments Kate mosse sepulchre review![]() ![]() TV Tropes has something called the Sliding Scale of Plot versus Characters which describes the balancing act that an author must achieve between crafting a plot and developing a character. Even more unfortunately, these problems are not fixed in the adaption, but simply transferred from one medium to the other. Two women in different time periods on a hunt to find/protect the Grail? That’s a fantastic premise! But unfortunately, the execution is a bit clumsy. With Oriane determined to get her hands on the books, it's up to Alaïs to smuggle the trilogy to safety. ![]() As the Viscount prepares for a siege, Alaïs's father decides to unite the three books and entrust them to his youngest daughter, much to the jealousy and resentment of her elder sister Oriane. ![]() To complicate matters, an army from the north of France is invading Carcassona in order to eradicate the Cathar heretics. With that discovery, her father reveals to her his long-held secret: that he is one of the guardians of three books that contain the secrets of the Holy Grail. ![]() One morning she goes to fetch herbs on the riverbank and discovers the dead body of a man in the water, his throat cut and his thumb removed. In 1209, seventeen year old Alaïs is a newly-wed wife who lives with her husband, father and sister at Chateau Comtal, a citadel under the protection of the very young Viscount Raymond-Roger Trencavel. ![]()
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