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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Creative, Innovative, Hyper-Paced, January 18, 2004
This review is from: The Da Vinci Legacy (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is filled with moments that made me wonder, "could this be true?" The strange brotherhood (all the bloodline of St. Peter) is reasonably rooted in the battles over the papcy and the dueling Popes that enlivened church history. I found the brotherhood's graveyard (with the final resting places of some very famous artists and scientists) to be at least as believable as the parallel in Da Vinci Code. Only for my dollar, I think that Perdue makes for more interesting action, but then that is a personal preference of mine and is no slam at the better-selling Da Vinci book which I read and enjoyed. Quite frankly, I resent the people who have posted vicious reviews here that paint Perdue's writing as the anti-Christ or something just because his style does not appeal to them. I prefer his style, but I think it would just be simply mean and petty to go post reviews trashing Dan Brown just because his style isn't my style. These reviews should help people select a book book that fits their taste and not be a forum for grudge posts which do not add to that. With that said, I need to say that I found Da Vinci Legacy well-written although not as well as Perdue's most recent ones, Daughter of God and Slatewiper. On the other hand, Perdue has had 20 years to improve as a writer. Personally, I cannot wait until I can find a new book by him.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
some confusion...., December 29, 2005
This review is from: The Da Vinci Legacy (Mass Market Paperback)
I read this book after reading in papers that serious discussion are going whether Dan Brown had used it as base for his book.
Maybe, - rather for sure - Brown has read this book and found some detail interesting but I cannot find more common in these two books than in any other two spy/war/romance stories.
Apart from this I found the new edition a little bit weird. The original release was in 1983 and the whole story is built on this, but in the new release you found some detail had been updated.
* hero pays in Euro (no Euro till 2002)
* hero's memories about the Iraq war (no such war in the coming 10 years)
* Enron scandal
* terrorist attack on New York (2001)
so I simply don't understand why does Perdue rewrote some part and left all the others in place, like cold war (great fear that Russia will have the secret weapon), communist party in Italy, etc.??????
All togeher the book is an interesting one, but not an exceptional. Above mistakes makes it only for a two star for me. Not as page turner as The Da Vinci Code.
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
You really shouldn't miss this current bestseller, January 19, 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: The Da Vinci Legacy (Mass Market Paperback)
If you find spiritual thrillers appealing-- those books that mix excitement and suspense with interesting ethical and moral issues, you can't pass this one up. I also read Perdue's Daughter of God and loved that novel. It is obvious both books have been thoroughly researched and that the characters present controversial insights about church history and moral ambiguity. So many mysteries or novels of suspense are just a matter of dead bodies and clues with little that sticks with you, a novel of substance always stands out. There is no question that there are some curious correspondences to Dan Brown's book which I also read-- particularly curious in that these books were published long before his book. Still, this is a great story that needs no comparison to anything. It is fascinating, absorbing, and involving.
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