By the author of the "New York Times"-bestselling "Labyrinth," a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage. In the winter of 1928, still seeking some kind of resolution to the horrors of World War I, Freddie is traveling through the beautiful but forbidding French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Dazed, he stumbles through the woods, emerging in a tiny village, where he finds an inn to wait out the blizzard. There he meets Fabrissa, a lovely young woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. By the time dawn breaks, Freddie will have unearthed a tragic, centuries-old mystery, and discovered his own role in the life of this remote town.
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Really this was a let-down. I didn't even go into this book with expectations! Finished it for book club.
Don't believe I've read Kate Mosse before, and after this book I probably will stay away.
This was touted with the blurbs as being chilling and says something like 'will haunt even the most jaded of mystery fans'. I'm not a mystery fan, but this was NOT chilling. I predicted everything that happened, and there wasn't anything scary other than how stupid the main character was.
Freddie was whiny and though the descriptions of his grief made me sympathize for him, I really didn't care that much because we never got any picture as to why George was so wonderful. I also understand that people all take different amounts of time to heal and that he could grieve for as long as he needed to, but the resolution of his grief just didn't make sense to me.
I saw it from a mile away that Fabrissa was a ghost (didn't realize that everyone at the festival was until the soldiers part) and was very frustrated at Freddie for being so dumb.
The long boring descriptions of setting were an excessive slog. I don't mind a little set-building, but there was not emotion being conveyed: it was a litany of street names and places that did nothing for me.
The quote toward the end about time contracting and colliding was very nice, but then having Freddie say that he didn't think it was time travel was weird.
Freddie also INSTANTLY loved Fabrissa, which was unfounded and ridiculous.
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