Assassin’s Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
It’s really sad when a book shows a lot of promise to be a great one but alas, did not. This book is in that list.
“Assassin’s Creed” is based on a very popular game from Ubisoft (side note: not a gamer but I watched YouTube videos of a bunch of guys playing the game and it is such a beautiful game that I want to buy an XBox just to play it). The first book in the series is about Ezio Auditorre who went through a journey to become one of the most famous assassins in Italy, seeking revenge for the murders of his father and brothers by traitors.
It has a really good plot and a great setting – Italy in the 1400s – but the writing is so underwhelming. Also, most of the times, I felt that it’s very rushed – at one point Ezio was doing one thing and the next paragraph, he was doing something BUT it was 2 years later. It was so confusing!
It is also frustrating because this book can do so much better. Alas, it was not meant to be and I’m sad. But I did manage to finish it instead of dumping it in my “We Are Never Ever Ever Getting Back Together” bag for books. Maybe because I was determined to give it a chance and thought it would do better in the later part of the book but no, it was the same. It’s like watching a trainwreck – you just can’t stop.
This Siti Never Sleeps At Night 