Interesting take on the decline of the Knights Templar. Solid art, lettering and pace. Like that parts were a little gruesome. ( )

I thought this was wonderful. I gave it to my then 13-year-old son, who also enjoyed it. Great illustrations, and an interesting bit of history. I hope they issue a sequel. ( )

So I got this from the Amazon Vine program because I thought my 11-year old son might enjoy it. He read it in a day and gave it the "meh". It gets a little better from me but not a lot. It's kind of light hearted and silly but does tell the story of the templars so it gets pretty dark sometimes once the inquisitors get involved.

I was a bit surprised that this was marketed as a young adult book but early on one of the templars calls the king's soldiers "a bunch of pussies". Later some mentions "...when you were sucking at your mother's tit". I mean these aren't dispicably filthy phrases but it just seemed like they would be more worried about parents being angry. I definitely don't use those words in front of my son and don't expect him to use those words in front of adults. Looking at the amazon page now though I don't see anything about YA.

Anyway the guy gets points for mentioned Umberto Eco's Focault's Pendulum (one of my favorites) but I think I would rather read this story in novel format with a much more adult tone (hopefully including many dispicably filthy phrases). ( )