Review - Sepulchre

I enjoyed reading Sepulchre, and I read it quite fast, but it was somehow less satisfying than Kate Mosse's previous novel, Labyrinth (my thoughts on that are here). It's awkward how the first part of Léonie's story is so long when it actually takes place in quite a short time, and the last few years of it are squashed into much fewer pages. More editing would definitely have helped. Meredith's character wasn't as well drawn as I would've liked -- honestly, I didn't care much about her personal quest, although I was interested in how it linked up with Léonie's life; I was much more interested in Léonie. It was interesting to see characters from Labyrinth drawn in, but...

I think perhaps Kate Mosse should have found another way to tell a story, rather than stretching the casual reader's disbelief so far with another story in which wrongs are righted by a descendant who just-so-happens to be sort of the wronged person's reincarnation. It was interesting to see her do it once, but she shouldn't rely on that as I feel she has in this book.

Fun enough for a casual read, but not something I'll be rereading.