I never thought I would say this: Dan Brown did a decent job writing 'The Da Vinci Code'. I have firmly believed it was poorly written prose wrapped around a decent mystery concept. I have now read the same book written with even worse prose. 'The Templar Legacy' attempts the same goal as Dan Brown's first famous novel but with less believable dialogue, descriptions of character feelings that drip with cliche, and wholly unrealisitic sexual tension.
I can appreciate, as I did with Dan Brown, the intertwining of fact, fiction and imagination in regards to the Templars but I cannot handle the descriptions that actually made me groan outload. 'She couldn't hide her anger well but she swallowed it enough to continue' is an almost accurate example. Mr. Berry, I feel you were just trying too hard. In a book that is about unraveling a mystery, we care far less about the character's feelings. It's really not what drives story. Less is more.
All that said, he sold millions of copies of this and other books. I think. At the very least, he finished a novel and got it published. That's impressive. I hope I don't get talked into reading another of his writings but God bless him.
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