A review by binches
The Secret Crusade by Oliver Bowden

4.0

Since the respective game doesn't focus much on the story of the protagonist, this book does. It tells the story of Altaïr during the events of Assassin's Creed 1 in the first half, and what happened to him in the following decades in the second. I was afraid that the second part would be exhausting, just like the final pages of Brotherhood felt like, but while it did feel stretched-out sometimes (mostly due to the time span it was covering), I really enjoyed it and it added a lot to the world and its characters. One thing that bothered me was the motive for Abbas' hatred against Altaïr because I don't think it's realistic for someone to hold on to something like that from childhood until one's eighties.