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Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
by Oliver Bowden
Synopsis:
Ezio Auditore makes it his life’s mission to seek vengeance for his family, who were betrayed by the ruling family of Italy. He learns the art of the assassins and his family’s role in this brotherhood. With the newly acquired skills- he goes on his quest to put a stop to the corruption in his city and fights for freedom, justice and the restoration of his family’s honour.
Thoughts:
We have monthly book discussions at work where we have to read and discuss books on the chosen genre, and I chose assassins creed for the sci-fi genre… and remembering that this was a game and my husband played it, so I started reading this book in the hopes that we could discuss it and compare the book to the game.
The book started off great!
The first half of the book was everything I hoped it would be. It was interesting, gripping, and fast-paced (or at least did not drag). If it continued that way, it would have been better, but alas…
The second half dragged- and I found myself putting it down a lot and reading something else.
The book starts from Ezio as an 18-year-old and ends off with him being 44 years old. More skilled in battle and a little bit more mature.
There were no emotions in a lot of the story, and no character development from him or any other characters, for that matter.
It’s not an awful book- and I won’t discourage anyone from reading it… Just don’t start reading it with high expectations.
There were so many things I picked out when I read:
- loved the environmental descriptions
- the action scenes were way too much and quite unnecessarily detailed.
- Some scenes were too short with little or no detail
- I was disappointed that some of the escape or rescue missions doesn’t give more detail- that made me sad/development.
I won’t give any spoilers, but the ending was pleasantly unexpected!
Ezio Auditore makes it his life’s mission to seek vengeance for his family, who were betrayed by the ruling family of Italy. He learns the art of the assassins and his family’s role in this brotherhood. With the newly acquired skills- he goes on his quest to put a stop to the corruption in his city and fights for freedom, justice and the restoration of his family’s honour.
Thoughts:
We have monthly book discussions at work where we have to read and discuss books on the chosen genre, and I chose assassins creed for the sci-fi genre… and remembering that this was a game and my husband played it, so I started reading this book in the hopes that we could discuss it and compare the book to the game.
The book started off great!
The first half of the book was everything I hoped it would be. It was interesting, gripping, and fast-paced (or at least did not drag). If it continued that way, it would have been better, but alas…
The second half dragged- and I found myself putting it down a lot and reading something else.
The book starts from Ezio as an 18-year-old and ends off with him being 44 years old. More skilled in battle and a little bit more mature.
There were no emotions in a lot of the story, and no character development from him or any other characters, for that matter.
It’s not an awful book- and I won’t discourage anyone from reading it… Just don’t start reading it with high expectations.
There were so many things I picked out when I read:
- loved the environmental descriptions
- the action scenes were way too much and quite unnecessarily detailed.
- Some scenes were too short with little or no detail
- I was disappointed that some of the escape or rescue missions doesn’t give more detail- that made me sad/development.
I won’t give any spoilers, but the ending was pleasantly unexpected!