Search - The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, Bk 1)

OMG !!!! This is the WORST book I've ever had to suffer through. This beats Christopher Rice's "Light Before Day" as the worst book I've ever read. I didn't think that could happen because Light Before Day was pretty awful.

Steve Berry did a horrible job at story telling in this book. All he wanted to do was show off his knowledge about the Templar Knights mixed in with some rubbish to fill in the holes in history. Usually I love books with secret socities and real life history mixed in with the story, but this was just horrible. From page one, I couldn't follow the story. I didn't care one bit about any of the characters. There were so many different names of places and people being thrown around that I couldn't keep it all straight. The dialog was so unbelievable. It's like the author is just way out of touch with real people. Maybe he just hangs around way over smart know it alls and he doesn't know how to relate to average people. I'm so glad I'm done with this book!!

At certain points, it was as if even the author knew his story wasn't believable. There were parts were the characters had to over explain their actions because it just didn't make any sense why they were saying or doing what they were doing.

The only reason I kept reading this book is because I received the 4th book from the Librarything Early Reviewers program and agreed to review it, but I wanted to read the first 3 of the series. This was the first book. There's no way I can put up 3 more of these books, but I was willing to give book 2 a try. The info on the jacket was already WAY better than the first book so I gave book 2 a chance. I'm on page 150 right now and its a million times better than "The Templar Legacy". It's still not that great, but I'm at least interested. I doubt book 4 will get a raving review from me on Librarything.

One of the better Templar books, now that there are thousands of them. A first class writer.

If you liked the DaVinci Code, you will like this one. The Knights Templar, the Catholic Church, lost and hidden treasure, espionage, and treachery. What more could you want? Mr. Berry makes it almost seem possible. As good as (or maybe better than The DaVinci Code). I highly recommend this book!