Review: Good Crusader story:
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 13, 2013
I enjoyed this story. It was very well written and sticks pretty closely, apart from a few timelines altered to facilitate the plot, to the known accounts of what actually took place. In the early part of the book there seemed to me to be too many quite long quotes from religious and literary texts of those times that often detracted from the tale being told. However, when relating the story of the hero in particular, and Richard and Saladin in general, the action moved along nicely.Great characters portrayed, and given life, here, particularly the larger than life King Richard and Conrad.All in all, a good presentation in a field where there is quite a lot of competition for excellence.