![]() ![]() ![]() However, her use of Hollywood-influenced magic and crude Disneyesque villains and villainesses, combined with a holier-than-thou heroine, ultimately left this reader cold. I admore her research into life in the Middle Ages, her knowledge of the French Midi (she lives in Carcassonne, 'restored' to a Victorian vision of the High Middle Ages), her attempt to make the grail a little different from the familiar holy bloodline thesis. ![]() I had high expectations for an out-of-the-ordinary modern take on the holy grail written by a successful reviewer and sponsor of new writing, but was deeply disappointed at the result.Kate Mosse has mixed up a cocktail of familiar elements (Cathar heretics, reincarnation, grail, medieval archaeology) and somehow turned it into a romance-cum-fantasy-cum-thriller of the cheapest kind. I read this before it was acclaimed The Viewers' Choice in a TV Book Club shortlist at the 2006 British Book Awards but, frankly, remained unimpressed. ![]()
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