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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780515145076
ISBN number: 0515145076
Label: Jove
Manufacturer: Jove
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 800
Printing Date: July 29, 2008
Publishing house: Jove
Sale Popularity Level: 68393
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The season’s most eagerly awaited thriller has arrived.
FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK
Knights Templar order member Sir Henry St. Clair is asked by Richard the Lionheart to join his army and free the Holy Land in a war. Sir Henry reluctantly agrees, but the many intrigues of Crusade leaders bring the St. Clair family and the Order to the edge of disaster.
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It's hard to write a sequal which exceeds the original, but this happened here. The character development is exceptional for a work of historical fiction. His sense of place and time is excellent. Great read.
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I've had a hard time finding good historical fiction so I was looking forward to SoH when it was recommended to me. Overall, it's pretty good (I would have given it 3.5 stars if I could) but nothing to get too excited about. Like most books of this type, SoH is 400 pages of story in a 800 page book. There is a lot of information-dumping but that's really for the benefit of those readers who did not read the very first installment of the series. The story moves a little slow and the choice of narratives was strange: he skipped over parts where I had expected much more detail. He tends to undercut his own climaxes after he builds them up. The characters seemed a touch flat (but I, personally, am more interested in story than character developement so I didn't care too much about that).
Even with these criticisms, however, Jack Whyte is still one of the better authors (in this genre) that I have found recently.
In any case, SoH is a decent read (and reads quickly since much of it can be skimmed without missing anything important). If you like the genre, then this is passable material.
Recommended (but just barely).
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I enjoyed this book a lot, but it could have been so much better. The author can never seem to decide if he wants the book to be about the Templars and the Crusades, or about Sir Andre St Clair.
The very first book dealt with the Knights as a part of the situation in the Holy Land between the First and Second Crusades. The story was good, and it fit within the time. This book lacks that focus, and it almost seems as if it could have been set in any time at any place in the world. The fact that the characters are Templars is secondary to the plot, and could easily have been left out without losing anything.
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Whyte places a 2008 politically correct microscope onto a 900+ year story. I found this novel very long and very dry and found the author self serving. I happened to be traveling internationally and this was the only reading I had available. Would not recommend.
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Read either "The Sword and the Grail" or "The sign and the Seal" for an enjoyable and insightful read.
Else...ever read a poor short story made worse by the addiction of the story teller to their own voice, you will be hard to find a more poorly written story than this extremely long winded tale by Whyte.
Lacks insight, concise editing, and a passion to spin a good yarn.
First and last book I'll read with him as author.
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