A review by harlando
Templar by Jordan Mechner

4.0

The Templars are very flexible subjects. In this book, they are the heroes, but they could just as easily be villains with a different set up. Making them the heroes plays on their martial virtues, and ignores that fact that they were vastly wealthy in a time of great poverty, got rich through their part in the conquest of the holy land, and were largely a reflection of medieval European society with leaders coming from the aristocracy and very little upward mobility.

This is a pretty engaging treasure-hunt-adventure. The characters are a little generic, but it’s still fun. The art was cartoonish, but it fit the story well and I liked it.