The first chapter sucked me in but from there it was pretty disappointing. The characters are all unbelievable. Khoury tries to write each from its own perspective but he doesn't go deep enough making them seem two-dimensional. Religion bashing exposes lack of understanding of people who believe in a Good and the Templar history town in seems fictional (and maybe it is but he could have done better). I won't be revisiting seies/author.