Jason Jones Jones itibaren Orlivka, Chernihivs'ka oblast, Ukrayna
duh. it's sei shonagon.
This book is complete fantasy!!! I love itto death! If you like faeries, centaurs, or satyrs, you should definetly read!!!
Andie, I remember you recommending this book to me a while ago. I will put it on my list!
I enjoy sweeping thrillers that involve a lot of characters and locations. Steve Berry has, for the past four or five years, been kind of in the middle of my list of liked authors for this type of book. The Third Secret jumped him up a couple of notches. I'm not entirely sure why, but this book seemed much better to me than the others of his that I've read like The Amber Room and The Charlemagne Pursuit. (Of which, I liked the latter quite a bit and the former not so much.) I think it was that this book seemed better thought out from beginning to end. There were many more threads that started from the very beginning of the book and finally tied together into a single piece of cloth by the end. That's what keeps me excited and presses me to finish a book. This book is similar to Dan Brown's Angels and Demons in content. It surrounds secrets in the Vatican and a power hungry pope wannabe. I don't belong to an organized religion and I don't usually care to spend my free time studying/learning/whatevering one. It says a lot about a book about organized religion when I can get completely sucked in. That being said...like the Dan Brown books, The Third Order is critical of the Catholic Church. So if you're sensitive about such topics, I'd pass on this one. Otherwise, I found it to be a great story that was well-developed and well-told.
Wow! This book rates way up there with my all-time favorites. The author's use of language was spellbinding and the story was fascinating. I took my time reading it because I didn't want it to end, yet at the same time I couldn't wait to read the next chapter. I loved all the characters. The author impressively brought them to life, no easy task given this is non-fiction. In the process I also learned a great deal about horses and horse racing, topics with which I wasn't very familiar. I definitely look forward to reading more of Hillenbrand's work.