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Crusade (Brethren Trilogy) (Brethren Trilogy) by: Robyn Young List Price: £6.99 City Travel Guides Price: £4.21 You Save: £2.78 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780340839744 ISBN: 0340839740 Label: Hodder Paperback Manufacturer: Hodder Paperback Number Of Pages: 650 Publication Date: February 07, 2008 Publisher: Hodder Paperback Studio: Hodder Paperback Sales Rank: 2183 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Good bedtime read for insomniacsThis is a poor one dimensional book. It is great to read at bedtime if you cannot relax, as this book will send you to sleep fast. I am persisting with this book on the grounds that it just has to get better! However it is hard to get stuch into more than a few pages at a time. Both the Templar characters and the Muslim (in particular Muslims) are just so weak! None of the Muslim chracters do anything to enthrall the reader and the Templar ones really are not believable. The title is Crusade, but I am 3/4 the way through and I can see no sign of it happening. The implausable Garin character is a work of pure literary weakness. Another reviewer said this is Mills and boon meets History, and I think that is rather accurate. ... Read More: Rating:  - An interesting readThis book was interesting from the depth of research about the period he was writing about would almost be a 5/5. Unfortunately for me, the book was let down by its story line. The characters were poorly developed, at times aspect of the story line was fantastical, and bore minimal regard to realitiy and a lack of depth. A little staid the story is 3/5. It didn't captivate. A shame, as it was set in an intersting time, with lots to play with :( A border line 4/5 only for the historical aspects. Rating:  - Patchy CharacterisationA passable read, but less than compelling. The books biggest fault (aside from a penchant for Christian baiting and pro-Islam) is the lead characters. Young's villains and many supporting players are interestingly drawn (esp. Garin), but her hero and heroine are so sacharine and wholesome, I fell the urge to vomit just to purge myself. The tale has its moments, but like the first in the series, is deeply flawed. Rating:  - Fantastic!I have to say, this is much better than the first book. While the focus was more on the Christian side in Brethren, Crusade was much more balanced on both sides. Readers (myself included) are taken into the political chaos that was the Temple and the inner circle of the Mamluk bigwigs. I am myself quite familiar historically with the fall of Acre and it was pleasant to see Robyn weaving fact and fiction beautifully such that the story plot flows without any problems. Bring on Requiem! Rating: - A strong novel bu rather long............For what it's worth, I thought that Brethren, the first in this yet-to-be-completed trilogy, was very good - the characters had depth, the storyline had credibility, it was a page-turner (never a bad thing if one has had to endure the hideous gloom of Thomas Hardy in one's youth) and the lovely Miss Young writes excellent and well-constructed English. It was a fine effort from one so young and also showed evidence of a great deal of careful historical research to root the novel in a bed of basic fact. Unusually for me, I actually sought out Crusade with real eagerness and settled down on a particularly wet and horrible weekend (which also featured much Gordon Brown on the tele - that's how bad a weekend it was) to enjoy it. Enjoy it I ... Read More: |
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