Jessica Brown Findlay as Alaïs in the 2012 TV adaptation. The contemporary Alice Tanner’s discovery of a cave on an archaeological dig awakens a powerful déjà-vu of Alaïs Pelletier du Mas, the 13 th century daughter of the steward of Carcassonne at the time of the Albigensian heresy, who finds herself charged with protecting the most explosive secret in history: three books that resolve the mystery of the Holy Grail. Two principal characters, 800 years apart. The reader suffers under the weight of this fact for all 700 pages of Labyrinth, Mosse’s obscenely well-reviewed novel of the Holy Grail where an obvious love for Carcassonne is besmirched by tedious characters, unconvincing dialogue, awful Hollywood clichés and lots of plain old bad writing. Like Ken Follett, Kate Mosse is one of those unfortunate writers with a nose like a bloodhound for a good story, but who can’t write to save their lives.
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