Honestly, I felt that this is more an action-drama piece with all of the assassinations, murder, chase sequence, bombs and more bombs intersected in between chapters. And then there's treachery thrown in. Suddenly what was supposed to be a puzzle-mystery affair turned out to be an emotional outpouring for the characters. Only until the very end that the book resorts to what it supposed to dwell in the first place. I was wondering all the time "when will this boredom ends?" because the holding off of information is so securely guarded - you actually don't have the enthusiasm to know more. Just the hope to finish this book fast, and get over it. Set during the Second World, the storyline follows a group of women Resistance fighters who are trying to help people escape the Nazis in France. We meet Sandrine and her network known by the codename Citadel. The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking in its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later. [1] [2] Een prachtig verhaal wat geschiedenis, bon homme, een codex, een oorlog, en liefdesverhaal met elkaar verweven. Christine helps her husband with his silicosis research. Eager to improve the lives of his patients, mainly coal miners, Manson dedicates many hours to research in his chosen field of lung disease. He studies for, and is granted, the MRCP, and when his research is published, an MD. The research gains him a post with the "Mines Fatigue Board" in London, but he resigns after six months to set up a private practice.

Kate Mosse has been on the periphery of my literary radar for a while now. Hers were books that would show up on recommendation lists based on books I had like. They would appear at my friends’ houses, imposing yet reassuring with their bulk and sleek, simple cover art. I was vaguely aware that she wrote historical fiction, and that was it.

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I had not read any other of Kate Mosse's work prior to reading Citadel so I was unsure of what I was getting into. After reading this novel, which I ended up enjoying at the very end, I do not think I will continue to read her novels. Whenever a novelist sets out to send a social or moral or political message, he/she risks publishing a piece of journalism (or, heaven forbid, a diatribe) and the novel burdened with carrying the message is likely to suffer for it. The protagonist may sound like a pitchman, a preacher or an investigative journalist, in which case the underlying story becomes mere window dressing. The works of many novelists of our day, especially those whose themes focus on the environment, economics, race relations, political conflict, poverty, the illicit drug trade etc. suffer from this syndrome. Mesmo com esse ritmo mais lento no desenvolvimento da obra, a experiência da leitura foi bem prazerosa. Recomendo bastante a leitura para quem se interessa pelo tema e para quem gosta de romances que retratam a sociedade do início do século passado! The six-episode first season of Citadel debuts with two episodes on April 28. New episodes will premiere every Friday through May 26. Lesley Manville (pictured below) plays “Dahlia Archer,” the British Ambassador to the United States, whose loyalties may lie elsewhere. She’s highly cunning and ambitious, making her both a valuable asset and a formidable foe.

The fictional city of Ruin in Turkey where the Citadel is located is brought to life with excellent imagery. The locations in the Middle-East keep us hooked as we start to realise the cradle of civilisation and the foundation of many religions emanated from the region. The characters are really well drawn and Liv Adamsen (New York reporter) in particular is very well developed and is central to the plot. Liv has an extremely close connection to all this and is unavoidably drawn into the web of intrigue, mystery and danger. A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth, a mountainous citadel in the historic Turkish city of Ruin. This is no ordinary suicide but a symbolic act. And thanks to the media, it is witnessed by the entire world. In Nazi occupied France the Citadel are a group of all-women freedom fighters - part of the Resistance, and determined to outwit both the Germans and the evil French collaborators. Led by 18 year old Sandrine Vidal, her sister and their friends, these woman show courage and daring, never knowing who is watching them or who will betray them to the authorities. So I read Sanctus solely because Kate told me I must. And you do what Kate says or bad things occur. No really, don’t cross that line folks! And in a reading turn around of epic proportions I loved every word. Every single word. Before going any further, we should probably make it clear that this tone is pretty much guaranteed to be nasty, violent and potentially a little upsetting. The Dwarves of Redoubt, for example, have had their culture destroyed and bastardised by humanity, and are habitually enslaved for the imagined sins of their forefathers. Elves, meanwhile, are characterised as fragile beings with shattered, flawed minds that manifest as bouts of mental illness that often parallel those found in the real world.

Since Manson has accused the incompetent surgeon of murder, he is vindictively reported to the General Medical Council for having worked with an American tuberculosis specialist, Richard Stillman, who does not have a medical degree, even though the patient had been successfully treated at his clinic. Stillman's treatment, that of pneumothorax, involved collapsing an affected lung with nitrogen, and was not universally accepted at the time. Joe Russo praised the two actors during the press conference, because they “play multiple versions of themselves.” The task is a tightrope because the “old personalities come into conflict with their new personalities; multiple characters dealing with a crisis of personality” inside one body.