Sanctus by Simon toyne first 2 reviews put together

Sanctus first part review (english review)

Hello there,

The book I am currently reading, is Sanctus and is divided in parts and if you thought I wasn't going to milk it out you were wrong! So I'm talking about this now for abit.
The Dutch article was actually somewhat late but this is one is on time!

Storyline

So its pretty easy and a bit complicated but I'm reviewing it anyway, a human monk (yes this is fantasy and not fantasy really ) commits suicide because reasons he was a monk in some sort of christian sect, one of the oldest around if not the oldest one.

 He commits suicide to pass a message to the proper authorities by jumping from the top of the monastery so he would land outside the jurisdiction of the monastery and he would  be picked up by the Turkish police.

Also interwoven in the story (actually its were the main story is about) there is a prophecy in this universe that the true cross will appear on the earth and the monk also kinda made a scene when committing suicide. 

Some Americans either find peace or draw their attention to the monastery because of that prophecy that I talked about

My opinion and other irritating stuff

I find this to be a very good opening for this book. I'm also reading this book in English its original language, I personally think that everyone should be able to read books in their original language. I master multiple languages so I am able to read books in their original language. 

The message in this is go out there and learn another language!

Review of the second part of sanctus

So I have now arrived at the start of the third part of sanctus, and I will review it for you guys.

I do have to mention that I now am unable to watch movies because for now I do not have acces to my external harddrive at the moment. I'm not at home and I left it at home so I kind off have to wing it if I want to publish articles about movies.

But were not here to talk about that are we? Let us go to the storyline of this part

Storyline

So basically the second part of the book revolves about the investigation of the suicide, Arkadian the chief inspector at the Ruin police deparment that has been doing this case calls the number found on a piece of leather found in the intestines of the monk that comitted suicide. After several attempts he manages to get a female on the line who is apperently the monk's sister while normally one cannot have living family members if they're in the acient monastery. As to be completly cut of from the outside world.

The sister, who hasn't heard from the monk is surprised, that her brother was still alive after 8 years of being missing until a couple of hours ago.

She didn't need to come all the way from the states to Ruin which is in Turkey for investigation or somewhat but she did, and as soon as she arrives she kind of gets abducted by the people from the citadel (the abbot kind of reestablishes the military order that used to be tied to the religious organisation, by the way we learn more and more about that order) and it then ends with the cliffhanger that she is in some kind of freak accident in the abducters car.

We also have some conspiracy nutters tagging along, maybe they saved her I don't know myself yet.

My opinion and other irritating stuff.

My opinion about this part is that this is way cooler than the last part, I enjoyed it more because now I am really in the mood to read this book.

Tough I more or less missed some key elements that maybe aren't even key elements, I could have wished that more had been explained about the religious order.