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The Cloisters

By: Katy Hays
Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
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Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she is assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its collection of medieval and Renaissance art.

There she is drawn into a small circle of charismatic but enigmatic researchers, each with their own secrets and desires, including the museum's curator, Patrick Roland, who is convinced that the history of Tarot holds the key to unlocking contemporary fortune telling.

Relieved to have left her troubled past behind and eager for the approval of her new colleagues, Ann is only too happy to indulge some of Patrick's more outlandish theories. But when Ann discovers a mysterious, once-thought lost deck of 15th-century Italian tarot cards, she suddenly finds herself at the centre of a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship and ambition.

And as the game being played within The Cloisters spirals out of control, Ann must decide whether she is truly able to defy the cards and shape her own future...

Bringing together the modern and the arcane, The Cloisters is a rich, thrillingly told tale of obsession and the ruthless pursuit of power.

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I enjoyed the atmosphere and the twists and turns but some of the characters could have used more dimension

I always enjoy it when a story has a twist

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Good performance by Tremaine
Unfortunately ends up being a sort of cross between Emily in Paris and Midsomer Murders

Corny

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I hardly ever write reviews, but felt compelled to do so in this case. Unfathomable how this writer is both an academic and a bestselling author. So so much is clunky, and -to quote- ‘unnecessarily redundant’. Boring characters, and utterly derivative. Don’t even mention Donna Tartt in the same sentence. Waste of a great setting.

Absolutely DREADFUL

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