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A review by elfeeza
Desert Oath by Oliver Bowden
2.0
We follow Bayek of Siwa in his journey to becoming the character he is in the game Assassin’s Creed Origins. So this is like an origins story for an origins story.
I did not like this book. I really enjoyed reading the other books in the series of the Assassin’s Creed novels by Oliver Bowden and the ones by Christie Golden but Desert Oath was hard to read. Not because it was long—the boon is only 378 pages and the words weren’t that small—or that there was an overflow of information. No. In fact it was how short and lacking in anything important and therefore choppy and sometimes too convenient how the events in the book happened and enfolded that made it painful to read. And it doesn’t help that the main protagonist is depicted as shallow, selfish and at times a little stupid. I get the feeling that Oliver Bowden was rushed to put out a book that compliments the game and he just wrote it for the sake of writing it. Very differently written comparef to the other Assassin’s Creed novels before this one.
I gave it 2 stars. Very disappointed :(
I did not like this book. I really enjoyed reading the other books in the series of the Assassin’s Creed novels by Oliver Bowden and the ones by Christie Golden but Desert Oath was hard to read. Not because it was long—the boon is only 378 pages and the words weren’t that small—or that there was an overflow of information. No. In fact it was how short and lacking in anything important and therefore choppy and sometimes too convenient how the events in the book happened and enfolded that made it painful to read. And it doesn’t help that the main protagonist is depicted as shallow, selfish and at times a little stupid. I get the feeling that Oliver Bowden was rushed to put out a book that compliments the game and he just wrote it for the sake of writing it. Very differently written comparef to the other Assassin’s Creed novels before this one.
I gave it 2 stars. Very disappointed :(