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Citadel by Kate Mosse

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juhpiter_'s review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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koebunny's review against another edition

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emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

The end of this one sucker punched me. It felt slower than Labyrinth and Sepulchre - maybe because I couldn't devote the time to finish it in one fell swoop this time, though - but the journey felt more complete.

It was a little frustrating, however, because Labyrinth takes place after Citadel, despite being the first book in the series. It felt like this was the finale, despite knowing Audric wouldn't see the end of his story for another sixty years.

Side note - I love the continuation of the Alice/William pairs throughout the stories. Elise and Guillame, Alice and William, Alais and Guilhelm. It was a neat detail that I enjoyed finding.

leavingsealevel's review

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2.0

Another historically inaccurate novel about strong women standing up to Nazis. This seems to be my thing at the moment. Apparently Citadel is the third book in a series...this dawned upon me about 100 pages in when all of a sudden strange supernatural spiritual things started happening. Without having read books 1 and 2, there was a whole plot line that I didn't really get. Luckily, the book is about 100000 pages long so even without that plot line I was reasonably entertained.

rioyoung's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

michael_k's review

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4.0

It was great! It's very balanced and I think it nicely completes the circle.

dhaag11's review

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5.0

This really is the perfect conclusion to the trilogy. An absolutely beautiful series. Kate's incredible talent for storytelling truly comes out in this series.

angelica_jardinerica's review

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2.5

This is my fifth Kate Mosse novel and the one I've liked the least by far. I almost DNF-ed it on numerous occasions, even when I was 90% through it. To start with, I'm not a fan of fiction based on true events, especially WW2, and above all when the storyline consists of the goodies constantly trying to escape the baddies. It became so repetitive and exhausting after a while. I found it very difficult to stay focused right from the beginning, with so many characters being presented at once and then a whole load of others cropping up constantly throughout, some that are only mentioned once but with the suggestion that we're supposed to know who they are. While I applaud the attempt to bring to the fore the women whose fight against different invaders has been painted out of history, it was all just a bit too clichéd, especially their romantic relationships. The disjointed descriptions made it really hard for me to picture the places described, even though I've visited the area. My overall impression when I got to the end was that yes, I should've DNF-ed it after the first few of the 700 pages and spent my time on something else.