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mamba24's review
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
tftka's review against another edition
2.0
The main character was a pain in the ass, that is the only thing a remember clearly. Trip down the history was nice, but it was not that much interesting. In a few months I will not remember much about this book, so... yea. Was not great, was not terrible.
greysonk's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
davybaby's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
acrisalves's review against another edition
4.0
https://osrascunhos.com/2018/03/02/assassins-creed-prova-de-fogo-del-col-mccreery-edwards-e-nunes/
O primeiro volume da série apresenta a premssa fantástica que permite as aventuras de Assassin’s Creed – um aparelho que permite passar aventuras no passado. Charlotte de La Cruz é uma das melhores jogadoras, utilizando o jogo como uma forma de escape pela desilusão de mais um sonho não concretizado.
Um dia é descoberta por um grupo secreto que lhe mostra que existe um outro simulador que permite viver alguns momentos no passado no corpo de um antepassado, através do ADN do jogador. Com esta descoberta vem o peso da revelação – muito mais está em jogo do que uma simples missão fictícia, muitos secredos que se baseiam em momentos chave do passado.
Muita coisa depende de Charlotte de La Cruz mas cada momento de imersão no passado tem um custo, principalmente porque o antepassado de Charlotte é um assassino implacável e a jovem não consegue assistir impassível à violência perpetuada. Cada momento fornece um conjunto de novas pistas sobre o passado que se reflectem no presente, mas a sua interpretação nem sempre é linear e directa.
A missão, no passado, decorre em Salem durante os tempos de caça às bruxas, mostrando como um grupo poderoso se aproveita do sentimento religioso para procurar uma pessoa com dons que possa usar e, no percurso, vai matando as mulheres que encontra.
Carregado de momentos de acção e bastante cuidado visualmente, o primeiro volume apresenta-nos uma associação secreta cujos intuitos desconhecemos, e as pistas acumulam-se para nos fazer pensar (e a Charlotte de la Cruz) que nem todos os objectivos das personagens foram, ainda, revelados.
O primeiro volume da série apresenta a premssa fantástica que permite as aventuras de Assassin’s Creed – um aparelho que permite passar aventuras no passado. Charlotte de La Cruz é uma das melhores jogadoras, utilizando o jogo como uma forma de escape pela desilusão de mais um sonho não concretizado.
Um dia é descoberta por um grupo secreto que lhe mostra que existe um outro simulador que permite viver alguns momentos no passado no corpo de um antepassado, através do ADN do jogador. Com esta descoberta vem o peso da revelação – muito mais está em jogo do que uma simples missão fictícia, muitos secredos que se baseiam em momentos chave do passado.
Muita coisa depende de Charlotte de La Cruz mas cada momento de imersão no passado tem um custo, principalmente porque o antepassado de Charlotte é um assassino implacável e a jovem não consegue assistir impassível à violência perpetuada. Cada momento fornece um conjunto de novas pistas sobre o passado que se reflectem no presente, mas a sua interpretação nem sempre é linear e directa.
A missão, no passado, decorre em Salem durante os tempos de caça às bruxas, mostrando como um grupo poderoso se aproveita do sentimento religioso para procurar uma pessoa com dons que possa usar e, no percurso, vai matando as mulheres que encontra.
Carregado de momentos de acção e bastante cuidado visualmente, o primeiro volume apresenta-nos uma associação secreta cujos intuitos desconhecemos, e as pistas acumulam-se para nos fazer pensar (e a Charlotte de la Cruz) que nem todos os objectivos das personagens foram, ainda, revelados.
tjlcody's review against another edition
1.0
I need to stop reading supplementary AC stuff. It's only working on my blood-pressure.
So I took a chance on this one, and now I'm regretting it for a few reasons:
One: You can tell whoever wrote this meant to write Charlotte as a Strong Female Character(TM). She threw around some buzzwords around ("Misogyny", she calls the Templars the "old white men brigade" or something similar), and is very clearly meant to be an action girl: "Whoo-hoo! Look at me! I'm not even blinking at the fact that the Assassins and Templars are real and jumping into things without thinking EVEN SLIGHTLY CRITICALLY ABOUT ANY OF THIS."
I mean for fuck's sake, people whine about Desmond Miles all the time and at least he actually had the sense to be freaked out and ask a lot of questions when Abstergo kidnapped him (and HE was actually aware already on some level about the Assassins and Templars.) But you expect me to believe that an otherwise normal woman with little experience beyond a normal life just jumps in and says "HELL YEAH" without being freaked out??
Theory: Whoever wrote this wanted to address the (constant, headache-inducing) whining about "HOW COME THERE NO STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS IN AC????" And so like everyone who tries to pander to the "WE WANT STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS(TM)" demographic, they came up with a clusterfuck of a female character because they were more concerned with checking off boxes on their "Politically Correct(TM) Story-Writing" Checklist.
But wait, you say! A buzzword-toting female lead isn't necessarily an indicator that the story overall was intended to be Politically Correct(TM) bullshit!
And you would be right! Except that Charlotte isn't my only complaint here. Oh no.
Two: The Salem Witch Trials.
I am- to put it gently- titchy about the Salem Witch Trials. I've done loads of research on them and I've read a lot of books, played games, and watched movies that have used them for fictional purposes. And see, people using the trials for fictional purposes doesn't bother me, generally speaking (I highly recommend Adriana Mather's [b:How to Hang a Witch|27405351|How to Hang a Witch (How to Hang a Witch, #1)|Adriana Mather|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1502061057s/27405351.jpg|43145978].
No, see, there's one very common way that the trials are spun, whether it's a reference to them, or a book or movie, or someone just talking about it in person, that bothers me:
It was spun into "The Salem Witch Trials were a persecution exclusively of women. It was 100% driven by misogyny and a desire by the Puritans to punish women who dared to have OPINIONS."
Look. I acknowledge to some extent that misogyny was a factor in the persecution of witches historically. Obviously it was a factor because misogyny was very prominent back in the day.
But I have said this a hundred-FUCKING-times, and I will say it again:
THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS DID NOT JUST TARGET WOMEN.
OF THE TWENTY PEOPLE EXECUTED IN SALEM, SIX WERE MEN.
LOADS OF MEN WERE ARRESTED AND SUFFERED IN PRISON.
LOADS OF MEN WERE OSTRACIZED OR PERSECUTED BECAUSE THEY WERE ACCUSED OR RELATED TO ACCUSED PERSONS.
IT WAS NOT JUST WOMEN ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT, AND IT WAS NOT JUST WOMEN WHO SUFFERED DURING THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS.
I do not, CANNOT, handle media that tries to spin the trials as "War on Women" bullshit. Are y'all FORGETTING that the people doing the accusing were YOUNG GIRLS? Are you FORGETTING that the court actually declined to find Rebecca Nurse guilty, BUT THOSE GIRLS SCREAMED AND CRIED UNTIL THEY CHANGED THEIR MINDS?
That did me in. The bad characterizations for EVERY character, the irritating lead, the utter lack of imagination with the story-telling (For fuck's sake, how do you mess up one of the most interesting periods in early American history), those were bad- but the fact that this story-line plays this BULLSHIT out like the Trials were a war on women rather than a hysteria that affected ALL PEOPLE? That made me furious, because it is so disgustingly obvious that the writers were choosing to pander to a VERY SPECIFIC demographic of readers by doing it.
And they chose to ignore the real victims of a real tragedy in the process. There were real men who died or suffered immensely because of the Trials, but- naaaah, ignore them, we have a chance to turn women into the Eternal Victims of the World; who cares if Giles Corey was pressed to death with stones because he refused to testify, or that five other men were hung right along with the women?
So screw this series. I've already gotten a feel for how Charlotte's going to be for the next few books, and I am disgusted and outright livid about how said series kicked off by pretending that the male victims of a senseless tragedy basically didn't exist, and I have no intention of giving this series or its writers anymore time, attention, or money.
I was hankering for some Assassin's Creed and all I got was a headache and a massive sense of regret. I'm going to go play Origins, where the characters are actually well-developed and the story is actually well-written.
So I took a chance on this one, and now I'm regretting it for a few reasons:
Spoiler
One: You can tell whoever wrote this meant to write Charlotte as a Strong Female Character(TM). She threw around some buzzwords around ("Misogyny", she calls the Templars the "old white men brigade" or something similar), and is very clearly meant to be an action girl: "Whoo-hoo! Look at me! I'm not even blinking at the fact that the Assassins and Templars are real and jumping into things without thinking EVEN SLIGHTLY CRITICALLY ABOUT ANY OF THIS."
I mean for fuck's sake, people whine about Desmond Miles all the time and at least he actually had the sense to be freaked out and ask a lot of questions when Abstergo kidnapped him (and HE was actually aware already on some level about the Assassins and Templars.) But you expect me to believe that an otherwise normal woman with little experience beyond a normal life just jumps in and says "HELL YEAH" without being freaked out??
Theory: Whoever wrote this wanted to address the (constant, headache-inducing) whining about "HOW COME THERE NO STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS IN AC????" And so like everyone who tries to pander to the "WE WANT STRONG FEMALE CHARACTERS(TM)" demographic, they came up with a clusterfuck of a female character because they were more concerned with checking off boxes on their "Politically Correct(TM) Story-Writing" Checklist.
But wait, you say! A buzzword-toting female lead isn't necessarily an indicator that the story overall was intended to be Politically Correct(TM) bullshit!
And you would be right! Except that Charlotte isn't my only complaint here. Oh no.
Two: The Salem Witch Trials.
I am- to put it gently- titchy about the Salem Witch Trials. I've done loads of research on them and I've read a lot of books, played games, and watched movies that have used them for fictional purposes. And see, people using the trials for fictional purposes doesn't bother me, generally speaking (I highly recommend Adriana Mather's [b:How to Hang a Witch|27405351|How to Hang a Witch (How to Hang a Witch, #1)|Adriana Mather|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1502061057s/27405351.jpg|43145978].
No, see, there's one very common way that the trials are spun, whether it's a reference to them, or a book or movie, or someone just talking about it in person, that bothers me:
It was spun into "The Salem Witch Trials were a persecution exclusively of women. It was 100% driven by misogyny and a desire by the Puritans to punish women who dared to have OPINIONS."
Look. I acknowledge to some extent that misogyny was a factor in the persecution of witches historically. Obviously it was a factor because misogyny was very prominent back in the day.
But I have said this a hundred-FUCKING-times, and I will say it again:
THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS DID NOT JUST TARGET WOMEN.
OF THE TWENTY PEOPLE EXECUTED IN SALEM, SIX WERE MEN.
LOADS OF MEN WERE ARRESTED AND SUFFERED IN PRISON.
LOADS OF MEN WERE OSTRACIZED OR PERSECUTED BECAUSE THEY WERE ACCUSED OR RELATED TO ACCUSED PERSONS.
IT WAS NOT JUST WOMEN ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT, AND IT WAS NOT JUST WOMEN WHO SUFFERED DURING THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS.
I do not, CANNOT, handle media that tries to spin the trials as "War on Women" bullshit. Are y'all FORGETTING that the people doing the accusing were YOUNG GIRLS? Are you FORGETTING that the court actually declined to find Rebecca Nurse guilty, BUT THOSE GIRLS SCREAMED AND CRIED UNTIL THEY CHANGED THEIR MINDS?
That did me in. The bad characterizations for EVERY character, the irritating lead, the utter lack of imagination with the story-telling (For fuck's sake, how do you mess up one of the most interesting periods in early American history), those were bad- but the fact that this story-line plays this BULLSHIT out like the Trials were a war on women rather than a hysteria that affected ALL PEOPLE? That made me furious, because it is so disgustingly obvious that the writers were choosing to pander to a VERY SPECIFIC demographic of readers by doing it.
And they chose to ignore the real victims of a real tragedy in the process. There were real men who died or suffered immensely because of the Trials, but- naaaah, ignore them, we have a chance to turn women into the Eternal Victims of the World; who cares if Giles Corey was pressed to death with stones because he refused to testify, or that five other men were hung right along with the women?
So screw this series. I've already gotten a feel for how Charlotte's going to be for the next few books, and I am disgusted and outright livid about how said series kicked off by pretending that the male victims of a senseless tragedy basically didn't exist, and I have no intention of giving this series or its writers anymore time, attention, or money.
I was hankering for some Assassin's Creed and all I got was a headache and a massive sense of regret. I'm going to go play Origins, where the characters are actually well-developed and the story is actually well-written.
horrorfanlucas's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I unfortunately disliked most of the characters and a lot of the dialogue was just people screaming at each other. But it was a very pretty book, great artwork outside of one part where a character's hands were tied, then they weren't, then they were again.
ladyahsoka's review against another edition
5.0
4.5 stars || SLIGHT SPOILER WARNING
“My ancestor’s a white dude? Weird. Mom’s gonna have to do some explaining.”
I have been playing the Assassin’s Creed games since Ubisoft’s fifth installment (Assassin’s Creed III) giving me a fair understanding of the universe. For those of you who saw the film adaptation of this franchise let me inform you that what as depicted there is not what is shown in the games or comics. In the unadapted version tapping into your ancestor’s past is a lot different. Regardless of the film, my review’s focus is the first volume (issues 1-5) of the comic Assassin’s Creed: Assassins.
“My ancestor’s a white dude? Weird. Mom’s gonna have to do some explaining.”
I have been playing the Assassin’s Creed games since Ubisoft’s fifth installment (Assassin’s Creed III) giving me a fair understanding of the universe. For those of you who saw the film adaptation of this franchise let me inform you that what as depicted there is not what is shown in the games or comics. In the unadapted version tapping into your ancestor’s past is a lot different. Regardless of the film, my review’s focus is the first volume (issues 1-5) of the comic Assassin’s Creed: Assassins.
First of all, the name of the comic does not do it justice.
They could have been a bit more creative with it, but I digress. The story given is far more appealing. Now, I have not read comics in quite some time. Therefore, getting back into the reading style was a bit rocky for me which may have lead to me misinterpreting the plot in the beginning. After rereading it I was able to catch on.
The story follows, 23-year-old latina, Charlotte De la Cruz who is in search of a job. After college, she was thrown into debt and needed a place to work. However, in her spare time, she plays a virtual reality video game made by Abstergo Entertainment that features Assassins and Templars. She believes the game to be built on pure fiction until Assassins show up at her doorstep.
Through the first volume, Charlotte is thrown into the past by using the genetic memory technology known as Animus. The adventure mostly depicts De la Cruz’s ancestor in Salem, but it does not fail to give her commentary and show her undergo the process of accessing the memories. The comic does not fail to build on her character and even praises her for stamina and ability to learn quickly.
As for the story, it was never lacking. It kept me engaged and allowed me to really see more to the modern Assassin world. It also depicted a bit of the Salem witch trials which was interesting. I’m a bit of a sucker for history so seeing this period in time flow into the Assassin storyline got me excited.
The only thing I’m hoping to gain as the series continues is more information about the other Creed members. They were only introduced in this volume which could mean there could more development to come.
Overall, I cannot wait to see where Charlotte’s story goes and what new information we receive about the Assassins and Templars. Not just the past, but also the present and maybe the future.