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Die 52 (2009)

by Mario Reading(Favorite Author)

3.22 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

3442371228 (ISBN13: 9783442371228)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag

series

Antichrist Trilogy

review 1: I was expecting something along the lines of da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, but found this novel to be more along the lines of The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury. A hidden "treasure" that can only be found by correctly deciphering the clues, while being chased by an assassin and the police gives our heroes a tall order to fill. Intermixed with the story is a telling of the lives of gypsies and their customs and belief system. I loved it.
review 2: This was an odd book. I expected something along the lines of the Da Vinci Code and though there were elements of this it felt very different. Much of the book is set within Gypsy camps and really explores gypsy life and mythology. I really liked how Reading played on people's perceptions of gypsies and kind of turned it... more on it's head and made gypsies come across as the better people (and he is probably right). My favourite element of the book comes in the form of the mysterious Achor Bale. He's the villain of the piece and you never really find that much information about him. He's one of the best villains I've read in a long time, mostly because he always seems better than the protagonists and his motives aren't really very clear. For a book with Nostradamus in the name and written by an expert on him, there was very little about the prophet. The trail of "clues" seems relatively simple and we find out very little about Nostradamus which is something which could have been blended in really well here. The unveiling of the missing prophecy is disappointing and didn't seem particularly clever to me- it's pretty much the same as any prophecy ever. This is a decent book but I just feel it's a bit confused. All the elements work fairly well but together they are a bit jumbled. less

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