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  • The Cloisters

  • A Novel
  • By: Katy Hays
  • Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
  • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (1,257 ratings)

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The Cloisters

By: Katy Hays
Narrated by: Emily Tremaine
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Publisher's summary

A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick

This instant New York Times bestseller that is “captivating in every sense of the word” (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author) follows a group of researchers uncovering a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters.

When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination.

Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the researchers’ more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling. But what begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into obsession when she discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future. When the dangerous game of power, seduction, and ambition at The Cloisters turns deadly, Ann becomes locked in a race for answers as the line between the arcane and the modern blurs.

A haunting and magical blend of genres, The Cloisters is a “masterwork of literary suspense that surges to an otherworldly conclusion” (Mark Prins, author of The Latinist).

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  • 'I think that academia is one of those things that lends itself so beautifully to fiction because it's really this kind of closed world.'

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Okay, but not surprising

A good delving into human desire, but not a page turning murder mystery. If you are good at imaging the suspense of a psychological thriller this might be of interest for you.

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Not what I was expecting

I was expecting something more fantasy but this really caught me by surprise! Such a good story and the ending had be in shock!

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An excellent “read”

Great either to read or listen to - I listened on Audible. Hard to put down.

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The Cloisters

I enjoyed this story! Would not have guessed the ending. Vivid descriptions were gripping and interesting.

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Great storytelling very clever

Really liked the descriptions of The Cloisters and the beauty that they take care of. Good until the end!!!

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Dazzling in its detail

The heavy symbolism in this book makes me relish my knowledge of tarot. This is a book I was delighted to read, again and again, to catch more themes I missed.

The narrator is horror in her story, glued underneath a political plot of someone else’s. I enjoyed the subtle aesthetic of the exposition. The characters are delicately balanced by dynamically pulsing threads of lust, secrecy, and darkness; all studies worthy of an academic.

My only critique is that there were no secret passageways, chambers, or tunnels.

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Great adventure

I love this book! So many twists and turns all the way to the very end!!! Wonderful!!!

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Great read

This read will keep your interest in every page turned, very good indeed, twist and turns.

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Great book

I read The Cloisters for book club. Loved the timing of what was revealed and how. Entertaining!!! Moved very fast after half

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Spellbinding!

I enjoyed this audio book so much that I listened to it twice! I paid more attention the second time though. Great story!

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