Week 5: "Kirkus Style Review"

For my Readers Advisory class we were asked to provide a "Kirkus Style Review."  I have just finished Labyrinth as you can tell from a previous post.  This is what I thought of it:

A well-researched adventure stretched between 800 years, Labyrinth by Kate Mosse is sure to captivate and keep you on the edge of your seat as chapter by chapter, pieces of a puzzle are revealed.

Two women. Two time periods.  Brought together through dreams and blood.  Alice is in France to meet with a solicitor about an inheritance she received from an aunt she didn’t know existed.  While there she meets up with a close friend to volunteer at an archeological dig.  Alice stumbles upon a great secret contained within a hidden cave. The boulder that almost killed Alice and revealed the cave is just the first of many dangers she will have to evade. Alaïs is in the year 1205 during the crusades and subsequent Inquisition that led to thousands of deaths, she is one of the last guardians of the labyrinth.  Both, Alice and Alaïs are in danger.  In 1205 Aquitaine, there are men on a quest to rid the world of “heretics”—the French.    There are also those who would take the secrets of the labyrinth and use them for selfish and evil purposes or destroy them as a symbol of heresy thought to plague the land. Alice’s journey is to find the reasons behind her being hunted.  Alaïs must find a way to evade capture on multiple fronts.  Each must protect those secrets as people around her are killed for helping.

You’ll want to follow the characters of Labyrinth as they weave through time “Pas a pas.”  “Step by step.”  These words push the women forward as they evade capture and most certainly death at the hands of those whom should be their partners in truth and love during perilous times. 

Aside: Contains some sexual material.