Citadel

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For the sake of freedom, the rescue of hostages, compassion to civilians, and to win against an enemy who was both a tyrant and homicidal maniac, was all at the forefront of those involved in the war.

The culminating 'supernatural' aspect could have been so much 'more' - it all happened in a few pages of the final 60 pages and was over as soon as it began, which was a bit of a let-down after the drip-feeding of all 4 books, hence 4 not 5 stars.Mosse, who co-founded the Orange prize for fiction in 1996, received an OBE in the recent Queen's birthday honours, which has cemented her reputation as a champion of popular literature. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. Perhaps those who caught the first two instalments would find something of value here, but for newcomers like myself, Citadel is definitely not the place to begin with Mosse.

It starts off very slowly with the character building etc, and at times I wondered where it was actually going. Citadel is both the name of a house in a small mountain village, and the name of a Resistance group, a group of women working actively to defeat the Germans. This entry was posted in book reviews and tagged book review, books, Kate Mosse, Languedoc, World War Two on April 25, 2014 by sandradan1.In fact, she's more than adept at writing two parallel tales with hundreds of years between the two. The day to day struggles of ordinary people during the Occupation, the blossoming romances, the fear, the hardships and sometimes the joys are all captured beautifully here. Like their ancestors who fought to protect their land from Northern invaders seven hundred years before, these women—code-named Citadel—fight to liberate their home from the Germans.