Interesting tale of a Knight Templar, one of the Brethren. ( )

Adventures in Acre and the surrounding areas in the 13th century when the power of the European crusade settlements is crumbling; easily readable, probably not that memorable, but I will seek out the final book in this trilogy. ( )

Présentation de l'éditeur : Saint-Jean d'Acre, 1274.Will Campbell est un Templier, un soldat entraîné au combat. Membre dune mystérieuse société secrète baptisée L'Ame du Temple, il est aussi un homme de paix qui a oeuvré à la trêve désormais installée entre chrétiens et musulmans de Terre sainte. Pourtant, les vieilles querelles ne demandent qu'à être rallumées. Le prince Edouard a promis au pape une nouvelle croisade et, en Orient, certains marchands commencent à trouver que la paix ne remplit pas assez leurs coffres. Quant au conseiller de Baybars, il a décidé d'en découdre avec les chrétiens, définitivement. Alors que le pire se prépare, Will est tiraillé entre son devoir de Templier, son rôle au sein de L'Ame du Temple et l'amour impossible qui le lie à Elwenn...
Biographie de l'auteur : Robyn Young est née en 1975 à Oxford. Irlandaise et galloise du côté de sa mère, anglaise et écossaise du côté de son père, elle a toujours été fascinée par l'héritage celtique dont elle se sent si proche. Après un voyage en Egypte en 2001, elle se lance dans la rédaction de L'Ame du Temple dont les trois premiers tomes - Le Livre du Cercle, La Pierre Noire et Requiem - sont parus au Fleuve Noir. Elle vit aujourd'hui à Brighton. ( )

Will Campbell is a Templar Knight trying to keep a balance between his life as a templar and the love of his life. He's also a man sworn to promote peace in a war-torn world.

To be brutally honest I found myself occasionally wondering why I was bothering and why the characters were bothering. Several of them blurred together in my mind and I really couldn't care less occasionally if they lived or died. I have no real urge to read book 3. ( )

I just started reading this book. I understand that it is the second book in a completed trilogy. I bought it on the remainder table at my local Indigo store and, although I prefer to start reading a trilogy starting with the first book, I decided to risk it and start with the second one. So far I have had no problems, as the author in the first 40 pages seems to have done a very good job of reviewing important events and characters from the first book before continuing on.
Ever since reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, I have become a pushover for any historical novel about medieval or renaissance eras with evil and not-so-evil churchmen and rulers of principalities and empires, especially if it also contains something about books, libraries, and lost or threatened manuscripts.
Then when quite a few years later, and Dan Brown came along, it looks like a whole new genre has blossomed. Of course these two authors were not the first to delve into this fairly broadly described style. Now whenever I can find a much earlier example of those topics, I like to compare them and see if I can find any more similarities.
Do any of you out there work on the same obsessions? I am guessing yes.