Review: Immensely entertaining
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2013
Ronan MacAlasdair's "high adventures," as one may call them, are edge-of-your-seat thrills. Author Seamus O'Griffin has written a tale that although set in the Medieval Period is so exquisitely written it feels as if you're reading something contemporary. Reading it reminds me of the fun I had reading Dumas's `The Three Musketeers', although `Galloglass: The Templar' is of a different literary flavor that is no less fun to savor.At the center of the tale is Ronan MacAlasdair, compelled to join the Templars in order to avoid grave repercussions arising from committing adultery. Guided by a seasoned warrior monk, Ronan embarks on an epic journey to carve his own path in the world and eventually find personal redemption. And when I say Ronan's adventures dropped my jaws quite a few times, I'm not kidding.Seamus O'Griffin is one extremely talented writer--he writes with that rare confidence of a writer who knows that he has what it takes to create a world so compelling in its verisimilitude, its colors and atmosphere that he doesn't need to resort to cheap tricks. Every line, every page of `Galloglass: The Templar' is evident with the author's sense of surety--that's why he is able to `dance gracefully' with MacAlasdair's tales of adventures. And this book is such a literary achievement that I'll be glad to read another of the author's works. Highly recommended to fans of the genre. `Galloglass: The Templar' deserves five stars, no less.