HarperCollins Sanctus, Crime & Thriller, Paperback, Simon Toyne
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Dimensions: 129x198mm
Keywords: Religion,Citadel,Police,Christianity,Mystery,Investigation,Creation,Conspiracy,Cult
ISBN: 9780007391585
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Author: Gary Stewart
Rating: 5
Review: Really enjoyed the characters and the story. Look forward to reading the next book in the series. Definitely worth a read
Author: Lorna Payne
Rating: 1
Review: It sounded interesting and had a fairly good start but oh dear.......it got boring! I note Simon Toyne was previously in TV I think that was what really let this down.. There are something like 135 chapters in this book, so each chapter is very brief...and really each one is like a scene in a TV programme or film, and the narrative constantly cuts from one character or scene to another as if the author is describing a fim rather than developing sustained narrative. Its like watching the camera cut from place to place,character to character. There was so much in the way of car chases, "action scenes", shootings etc that it got very tedious...such things are better on film. And in all this the central mystery got lost. It's NOT fantastic surprise at the end either. I managed to work out what was coming, but yes I have a lot of knowledge about religion. It's monk and the Sancti are downright silly .its less a religios theme than science fiction, im trying to be restrained over spoilers but the sections about the Sancti become more and more implausible, unrelated to any form of monasticism ever seen before...a sort of "Omega Man" or "Blade Runner" meets"Day if the Jackal".........in the end I skim read the final third of the book because I was so, so bored with endless "action scenes" that didnt drive the narrative forward but wanted to know what happened, what was the great "sacrament" or guarded secret at the centre of the story..Don't hold your breath...it's not very good or worth waiting for. There are plenty of clues and someone with a reasonable understanding of symbolism and religion, and who's read a lot of Agatha Christie, should work it out no bother. But there's no "wow factor"...no great reveal.....no clever and interesting conclusion that gives you that lovely satisfying"oh..so THATS how it was done", like seeing a David Copperfield illusion...there should be a good pay off at the end. Not here.....not ever ...the two halves of the story don't fit together.there is never any reasonable explanation as to how the "victim", seen from chapter one, ever got to this "religious order" in a way out corner of Turkey, that might as well be downtown L.A. For all the geographical relevance the setting has. Why oh why can someone not write a plausible book about religion that is based on things as it really is? If people choose not to believe in the tenets and origins of Christianity that's fine...but at leat get the research right about the historical evidence. This is loaded with errors. That's just sloppy research. Also strangely, as it's set in a Moslem country...there's no reference to that at all. In fact there is no reason why the fictional city of Ruin is set in Turkey or the Middle East , oh...apart from one silly linguistic type clue linking the symbol of the Tau, of the Sancti monks (in essence a capital letter T as opposed to the Christian cross)to the Taurus Mountains where it's set..geddit?yeh geddit? No real linguistic link As I'm pretty certain the words are from different languages and the similarity only appears when they're written in English letters. To be honest I can't be bothered to write any more...I LOVE reading, it's my fave activity especially now I'm too ill to work, so it pains me not to finish a book....I NEVER do that.I forced myself to finish this to see if I was right about the clues and the secret it led up to ..and I was. To be honest I thought the "Da Vinci Code" was a far better read, and a far more plausible "religious secret/ heresy" at it's heart, though I diagree with it factually too. OK I have a degree in Theology and History, but I'm entitled to read fiction too. "Labyrinth" by Kate Mosse is far and away the best of this genre. Her research into the Cathars of the 12/13 century Languedoc region of France, was accurate, historically, theologically and it had the time slip/reincarnation theme too. If there is going to be. Sanctus trilogy God help us! I can't imagine how tedious and convoluted the next two will be, nor how implausible the "heresy" subplot.
