HERMANDAD DE LA SABANA SANTA

Rating:
Summary: Trying to cash in on DaVinci Code
Review: Navarro's attempt at a historical mistery tale simply fails. At first, the plot seems interesting and well conceived. However, as she starts jumping around historical periods, following the trace of the sheet with which the body of Christ was covered and on which the image of Christ miraculously appears, the plot goes astray. Too many characters, and very few of them are fully developed.

She tries to cover too much in 500+ pages....Knights Templar, a couple of french kings, Constantinople....and so on. The book does not involve you in any way. Definitely not a page turner.....

Not to ruin the book's ending, suffice it to say that one of the greatest misteries in history is resolved in an extremely simplistic manner.

I originally bought the book because it is a great hit in libraries in Madrid, which is usually a decent indicator of how good a book is, but in this case, big dissapointment.

Rating:
Summary: Entretenido
Review: Una historia interesante cuyo centro es el enigma de La Sabana Santa que nos transporta desde el presente en la Catedral de Turin hasta el pasado comenzando con los albores del cristianismo en el Oriente pasando por momentos históricos puntuales e intercalando personajes y organizaciones conocidas a traves de la historia, por sus páginas nos topamos con los apóstoles de Jesús en sus inicios en el turbulento Imperio Romano, la decadencia del Imperio Bizantino, la caida de Acre, la disolución del Temple y la desaparición y aparición de la Sabana Santa en la Casa de Saboya siglos después.
Una novela que tiene de todo un poco, historia, intrigas, conspiraciones, organizaciones secretas, crimenes, etc.

Rating:
Summary: Great Novel, good history book
Review: Yes, it's a novel. But it has so many historical facts that you don't know where fiction stops and historical venues start.

One of the best novels I've read.