Reviews for The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

The average rating for The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-11 00:00:00 Christina Summa Did you have to waste so many pages.? Waste of time and energy. The book is supposed to be a thriller and I didn't feel any thrill at all. It was dull,dragging,and tested my patience in many places. You can't state few names like shroud of Turin and Knights Templar and expect the readers to accept it as a spectacular thriller. Well.. I'm to be blamed for falling for anything with those names in it. And the ending.. It couldn't have been more crappy.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-08-10 00:00:00 Brian Lueders "The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud" by Julia Navarro is a novel woven around the history of the Shroud of Turin. The protagonist is Marco Valoni, Chief of the Italian Art Crimes Department. The author is a Spanish journalist and this is her first novel. The book starts off slow, but does pick up the pace as it goes along. I had the feeling Navarro tried to pack too much information and characters into the story. Otherwise, it was an exciting historical novel. Navarro had two stories on going: one in the current timeframe the other in ancient times. I am not sure if some of the problems with the story had to do with the translation from Spanish to English. I can not recommend this book. But with a good rewrite to tighten up the story, it might make a good thriller. I read this as a paperback. It has 546 pages published in 2007 by Dell Publishing.