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A review by joycet
The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra
4.0
This was a nice read.
In the reader's guide they mention both The DaVinci Code and The Name of the Rose and ask how you would compare this book with those.
I would put it between those books if the Davinci Code were to lie at one end as a piece of fluff loosely based on history and if I were to put the Name of the Rose at the other end as a work of fiction infused with copious research and historical texts.
The author admits he was influenced by Eco's use of real texts referenced in his own.
Sierra did research and he does admit to using fiction to fill in the black holes of history. But this is not some mystery or badly-written suspense story. This is an interesting look at a period of time when Il Cenacolo was first revealed to the Milanese public. I enjoyed it immensely and appreciated that he tried to base the characters as much as possible in an historically accurate setting.
In the reader's guide they mention both The DaVinci Code and The Name of the Rose and ask how you would compare this book with those.
I would put it between those books if the Davinci Code were to lie at one end as a piece of fluff loosely based on history and if I were to put the Name of the Rose at the other end as a work of fiction infused with copious research and historical texts.
The author admits he was influenced by Eco's use of real texts referenced in his own.
Sierra did research and he does admit to using fiction to fill in the black holes of history. But this is not some mystery or badly-written suspense story. This is an interesting look at a period of time when Il Cenacolo was first revealed to the Milanese public. I enjoyed it immensely and appreciated that he tried to base the characters as much as possible in an historically accurate setting.