| A stunning novel about
obsession and revenge, this book is extremely hard to put
down once you’ve started it. As with her previous book ‘Labyrinth’
the story switches between the past and the present with
ease, establishing connections that make the story complete.
I often find with books that do this that there is one era
I prefer, and whilst reading about the other era I’m itching
to get back to my favourite. However, not so with Sepulchre,
the story in both eras is equally gripping, and the characters
in both eras are fundamental to developing the reader’s
understanding of the characters in the tarot cards. The
characters are cleverly and beautifully developed, and I
grew very fond of some of them so was seen to be shedding
a few tears at the events that befell them.
The story starts in Paris in March 1891, where an innocent
teenage girl attends a funeral that never was, knowing little
about the series of events she was about to become embroiled
in. Her only crime is concern for her brother. Little does
she know that a truly evil man, charismatic as such men
often are, is about to threaten everyone and everything
she holds dear. These players and more soon develop into
the tarot characters discovered by our heroine in the present
day, who embarks on a mission that enables her to discover
her ancestry and face her demons (literally!). Knowing how
the Victor Constant character had been built up throughout
the book I found his reincarnation in the final chapters
utterly spine chilling. |
