by Simon Toyne
Thanks Kate! I think….. So the first thing to make perfectly clear is I HATE religion based thrillers of the Dan Brown ilk. They really are all the same book. In this readers opinion Dan Brown has written the same book several times and still manages to get a huge following – thats great, my one thi...
Great book! Intriguing and better than the Da Vinci Code! Will start the second in this trilogy as soon as I finish up a couple other on my currently reading list.
3.5 stars - This means I enjoyed this book, it was good, but there was something that kept me for loving it. ---> *Warning: May Contain SpoilersSanctus by Simon Toyne, a British television producer and a writer, is the first book from the Sancti Trilogy.From the beginning, the author introduces us...
"Sanctus" by Simon Toyne is a cleverly constructed and extremely suspenseful novel. It's filled with plenty of very sinister and scary villains -- particularly one monstrous monk -- and admirable heroes -- particularly one fetching and formidable female journalist.Artfully included is some Dan Brown...
I occasionally have the unexplainable urge to read quasi-religious hodgepodgeconspiracy-theory, thrillers and Sanctus, first in a trilogy, falls into that genere.Set in the fictional city of Ruin, in modern day Turkey, the start ofthe novel was breathtaking, with its cinematic description of a monk...
Religious conspiracy thriller are in abundance these days. Dan Brown proved there was a lot of money to be had in this genre, and authors everywhere were off to the races. On the surface, Sanctus appears to follow the same cookie-cutter format that pervades this genre. Thankfully, Simon Toyne create...
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