Labyrinth has it all: history, romance, suspense, mystery, myth and danger. Reading Labyrinth was an emotional experience for me. It got me sucked into the book, which really makes up a good book. Read full review at Beyond Strange New Words.
As Grail fiction, this blows Da Vinci Code out of the water; the characterization is so much better. I loved the device of switching between two times, using mirror-characters (vaguely hinting at the idea of reincarnation, which is touched upon in the religious context of the medieval half of the pl...
This gripping novel takes some of my favorite interests (archaeology, comparative religion, Arthurian legend, history, and ancient Egypt) and melds them together in an unexpected and effective fashion. The book alternates between modern times and the 13th C. (during Innocent III's crusade against t...
Once I got past the reader, this was a really gripping story. I'm always fascinated by history, although I find a lot of historical non-fiction too dry, so I tend to gravitate toward historical fiction. I do like it to be well-researched, though, and I feel that this was. I am also fascinated by sto...
This book annoyed me. It was a bit like the Da Vinci code except more melodramatic, harder to read and less plausible... You get the idea... I finished it because I wanted to know how it ended, but I was not convinced.
oh man--there are just too many GOOD Holy Grail novels for this to exist.I do think there was a book in here, but it was buried for want of editing, I was surprised given how much hype it was given, but then realized that the author was some kind of literary prize giver, so there we go.....
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