Book Review: The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
Cash in on the Da Vinci Code you say? Surely not. People have written templar consipracy novels for years prior to the Da Vinci Code. And this one proved fun to read.
Publishers do seem to enjoy novels about action based antiquarian book dealers though, I don’t know if I approve of that, but it seems to work out fine in this novel. Ignore the plot, focus on the action, and you’ll have a fun ride.
A tad too many ‘puzzles’ inserted to make it all ‘occult’ and ‘mysterious’ but when you strip those out and skim over them you get a good action chase novel.
Now the observant reader will have asked themselves "but if you skim those bits then it can’t work well as a novel!". And I say you better get better at skimming books, sometimes you have to.
I passed this on to my Dad – a far more diligent reader of words than I (I suspect he reads all of the words in the book) – and he enjoyed it, probably more than I did so those words must count for something then.