A review by phoenixs
Assassin's Creed: Forsaken by Oliver Bowden, Andrew Holmes

3.0

I'd ideally like to give this three and a half, because I'm a bit torn with the end half of the book. I'm not sure what changes I would've made if I were the one who wrote it though, so on the whole I'm satisfied with it. I liked getting more insight into Haytham's character, although I thought it was pretty clear who he was in the game's storyline. I liked getting to know just how exactly he became so disillusioned though. This was my first time reading one of the books from the Assassin's Creed book series. Oliver Bowden does a good job of capturing the spirit of the games I think! It'll be fun to try another of the series when I feel like it. Maybe I'll give the first book in the series another go (I tried to start that one once and was put off by the prologue, which felt a bit forced).

Overall, I'd recommend this to someone who has already played Assassin's Creed III, but even not having played the game the book stands on it's own fairly well. There isn't too much here to alienate readers that know little of the game's universe.