Review: Entertaining page turner
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2013
The blurb talks about The DaVinci Code and Indiana Jones and this is a very useful and accurate description. We have the intriguing and somehow semi educational plot line of a Dan Brown story melded with the action packed and half absurd heroics of a Lucas and Spielberg creation. The book is filled with interesting facts and anecdotes about religions and various important individuals; it walks the line of the hidden secrets and lost knowledge, the angry resentments that fuel centuries of unrest both within and between religions. It is also replete with the paranormal and the superhuman. This makes for a potent plot mix.The characters cover the spectrum and as at least one reviewer has noted it seems at times to be the perfect set up for a joke, but in reality the characters are carefully chosen to carry the plot. The downside is that we are drawn in multiple tangents at times flipping rapidly from place to place. In part this builds tension and in almost equal part it was at times an irritation.This has the feel of a well researched book. I said that about another tome some while back and was lambasted about historical inaccuracies by an expert in that particular niche time period, but to me what is important is that the historical references deepen the reading experience and drew me into the plot.An entertaining page turner that keeps us guessing to the end.