Labyrinth

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth.

Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. Now, as crusading armies gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take a tremendous sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.

Labyrinth Audio Version


After only a few chapters of this book, I started to have such disturbing dreams that I had to stop reading it. This has happened before, occasionally, with books that touch on some violent time in history. My husband, however, was interested and was able to read it to the end. I asked him to write a review for my blog, but he declined. His comment, "It was pretty good." He is a man of few words.