Reviews

Assassin's Creed by Christie Golden

comingofpage's review against another edition

3.0

It is a typical novelization. It seems rushed and it is written with a word-choice that makes it seem like it wants to look smart but really it is just a retelling of the movie. One thing that did annoy me is that it included references to the games and everything, many things the movie shouldn't have left out. Perhaps the latter is more a complaint towards the movie than it is towards the novelization.

tillybh's review against another edition

5.0

This was SO much better than I was expecting! There was more depth to the story than just a simple retelling of the film and the side characters who we see but barely meet in the film - Moussa, Emir, Lin, Nathan - are introduced and developed.
Perhaps the best part was how it didn't feel like a novel based on a film; Christie Golden is a talented writer and it was a pleasure to read.

borisignatievich's review against another edition

2.0

This book kind of suffered from the same thing a lot of Assassin's Creed stuff does ime, that the future stuff with the Animus is often the least interesting part of it. But in a movie format - and therefore this book - where you only have a couple of hours, for it to make sense you wind up having a way higher percentage of future than you do in the games. The book was fine, and competent, but didn't particularly excite me at all. It did, however, get me out of a bit of a reading slump I was in, it was a pretty easy read that I absolutely blasted through, so that was cool.