I picked this up from the exchange shelf at Starbucks when I dropped off another wild release. I was attracted to this because I appreciate good icons. I'm hoping that it is well researched and written.

This is definitely *not* another DaVinci Code. I slogged through the first seven chapters waiting to get to the good stuff, hoping the story would pick up speed. The writing is clumsy and the dialogue is a little stiff. It feels like J-fiction written for middle-school boys. Since I am way beyond middle-school and my reading time is too precious to me to waste on inferior literature, I'm passing on this. It will spend a few days on the company bookshelf. I'll release it in the wild if it isn't snapped up soon.

RELEASE NOTES:

The cover says, "Fans of Dan Brown take note!" Yeah, right. This is a poorly written book that might interest middle school boys with fantasies of adventure in ye olde England, but not adults looking for solid historical fiction.