None of the characters are ever developed to any significant degree. This is very much a plot-driven narrative.
The plot of this story is about the struggle between those two forces. Now, the widow/mother has been drawn into the same mysteries.īut there are some powerful forces that don't want those mysteries uncovered and that are willing to go to any lengths to prevent it. After he committed suicide, his son had carried on the research until his own supposed death in an avalanche in the Pyrenees. Her husband was a writer who had written about the Knights Templar and had been deeply involved in following up on clues regarding mysteries about them. Through some snooping, he learns that her visit is related to research that had been done by her late estranged husband and son. He's just heard from his former boss at the DOJ that she is coming to Copenhagen. When we meet Malone, he has been retired from that life for a year, during which he has moved to Copenhagen and opened an antiquarian bookstore. The Templar Legacy is the first in Berry's series featuring Cotton Malone, a former operative with a secret unit within the U.S. And I do like a good thriller based on history, so Berry seemed a good fit. Not great literature certainly, but diverting for what it is.
Steve Berry was pitched to me as "the thinking reader's Dan Brown." Well, I've read some of Dan Brown's stuff and found it somewhat enjoyable. Which brings me to Steve Berry's The Templar Legacy. Sometimes they even end up being a three- or four-star read. And so I stick with those unpromising reads right through to the bitter end. There have been a number of times when I find that a book that starts slowly and seems to hold little interest for me in its first quarter or so begins to pick up speed and enjoyment as the plot proceeds and I become better acquainted with the characters. I, on the other hand, maintain that there is logic and rationality behind my reading strategy. He maintains that he can tell in that first fifty pages if he's going to find the book worthwhile. In this, I am the direct opposite of my darling hubby who, if he doesn't find something to grab his attention and interest in the first fifty pages, feels no compunction about tossing the book onto his ever-growing mountain of unfinished reads. When I commit to reading a book, I feel a compulsion to finish it even if I'm not finding the experience particularly enjoyable. I suffer from a bit of OCD in my reading habits.
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