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Altaïr embarks on a formidable mission—one that takes him throughout the Holy Land and shows him the true meaning of the Assassin’s Creed. To demonstrate his commitment, Altaïr must defeat nine deadly enemies, including Templar leader Robert de Sable.
Altaïr’s life story is told here for the first time: a journey that will change the course of history; his ongoing battle with the Templar conspiracy; a family life that is as tragic as it is shocking; and the ultimate betrayal of an old friend.
- Sales Rank: #80993 in Books
- Published on: 2011-06-28
- Released on: 2011-06-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.50" h x 1.00" w x 4.25" l, .60 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 464 pages
About the Author
Oliver Bowden is a pseudonym for an acclaimed novelist.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Why, Bowden...why!? AC fans be WARY of this novel.
By Liz
Okay, I have JUST finished reading the book....
I. Am. Thoroughly. LIVID.
*may contain mild but vague spoilers, I won't go into detail*
So the book is 7/8 a retelling of AC1 and the DS game, only an 1/8 is new content. Bowden glazes over key events that could've had more detail and keep my interest (like the missions themselves), yet describes the most peculiar events that could have done without heavy explanations. Sure! Let's find out that a certain major characters die in two sentences WITHOUT much description or reflection. But let's go ahead and explain in a paragraph how much Altair hates the smell of death to the point of vomiting (He's a Master Assassin for christssake! Why should the smell of rotting flesh affect him NOW as if it were his first encounter with the smell?)
His style is odd. His mesh of different sentence structures didn't flow well during important events. It didn't bug me too much since I had read the previous 2 books of his and was prepared. But when it did, it reared it's ugly head, making me stop my reading to slap my hand to my face and break what little plot flow I managed to obtain.
Let me give an example.There is a moment it is anticipated that Talal is sending out men to attack Altair. What I get is this lovely bit of text:
He waved to his men.
Who lifted their swords.
And attacked.
My guess was that he tried for a dramatic effect with the pausing...but this is so awkwardly broken up, I can't even follow. Whatever he was trying to accomplish with this didn't work with the flow. I had to stop and look at it for awhile...
He also likes to abuse italics. Don't get me wrong, he's used...some of it in the right places, but he likes to use italicized font for EVERYTHING: Flashbacks, screaming, internal monologue, identifying foreign languages... At one point, I thought Altair was monologuing when it was a FLASHBACK. A little consistency or context to clear things up would've been nice, considering I became wary of ANY italics being used thereafter.
But there is one point....oh man, I got LOST. Lost as in I-read-the-chapter-back-and-forth-twice-and-only-had-a-vague-idea-of-what's-going-on lost. It was a chapter where Altair encounters Malik in Jerusalem for an assignment...BUT HERE'S THE CATCH. It starts chronicling at the END of Altair's mission when the deed is done, and then awkwardly begins describing from the beginning when he enters the bureau only to end before he kills the target. This is the ONLY time he narrates a mission in such a manner and it was INFURIATING beyond means.
I don't even want to start on how I feel about the deaths and actions of EVERY CHARACTER.
Any light in the road through all this? There's an introduction of a character (not mentioned in the game canon) towards the later part that seems to have a well-written personality. It's too bad we don't get too much time with him because he was the ONLY character in this novel that held my interest.
Bowden's interpretation of the series is below-average at best, and does not do the game's narrative justice.
**There is, however, another book you may be interested in since, due to publisher circumstances, WOULD HAVE BEEN an official novelization of events prior to Assassin's Creed 1: "Assassin and Other Stories" by Steven Barnes. You won't be dissappointed**
If you enjoy the game series, do not buy this book. It will crush your expectations.
If you're curious about the series' storyline, just play the game and you'll have a MUCH better experience.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Outstanding, yet compressed
By Amazon Customer
As others have said this book chronicles the first game in the Assassin's Creed series and the PSP game Bloodlines, taking events and dialog from the games verbatim. There is however so much more here. Where in the game Altaïr is an undefined vessel for the player to fill, this work fleshes out the person. There is a grand story here, but the telling of it is very compressed. Events are described quickly and perfunctorily, and the scene is not set in a detailed manner. This is I think due to the "reading a journal" style of writing combined with an arbitrary page count limitation. Given total freedom, a scholar of Bowden's training could have written a 1500 page epic, the kind one reads over a whole winter of chilly evenings. I believe the Masters of the Creed franchise decreed that such an attempt would take too long and would be too long for the intended audience. A pity, as I think the actual audience is people like me who want to wring every possible scrap of information from this amazing story. That said, I enjoyed it thoroughly and was very satisfied in how storyline set in the games but never resolved were completed. Like the games, you feel "close" to actual history, while at the same time are given the sense of being privy to something hidden, something very, very important. A must read for fans of the Creed franchise, and an enjoyable quick read for those who wonder what this whole Assassin's Creed thing is about but cannot or will not play the games for whatever reason.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Simple in telling, in routine and not very detailed, but add some highlights on the afterlife Altaïr
By C&V
I'll be as unbiased as I can. I like the book, only because I'm a hardcore Assassin's Creed fan, so that is why I gave it a three, which is already generous because it
leans more closer to a two star novel. As a book fan I would only give this one or two stars. Here's why.
The story of the first game and Bloodlines is retold and it is interesting to read it, seeing how everything connects in the first game in a cycle that is repetitive, but not as repetitive as in the game, cause the author manages to bring some variety to it, but this could have been done much better. The story is not very descriptive, it just mainly repeats events, conversations from the game. It lacks describtion of the locations of the characters in general, which makes them lack depth. It's not worse as the first game, but with the oppertunity to create this novel, he could have really added more depth. Yes he did not manage to do this. It's mostly just all directly from the game. (Minor spoiler ahead) Mostly I misssed the conversations Altaïr has with Malik as his character really shows, and how it shows how he slowly changes, not just jumps from one point to the other.
When we get to the part of Bloodlines it gets a little better, but I don't think this is because of the author's writing, but because the game itself didn't have a story where this cycle just repeated itself (assassination, back to Masyaf, assassination, back to Masyaf and so on...). That is what made this part more readable, but again I don't think we owe that to the author. Once again he isn't very descriptive and could have added much more to the relationship between Maria and Altaïr.
The only good thing I can add is that between the events of first game and Bloodlines there are a few scenes of Altaïr's younger life, which is kind of a build up for what happens in his later life. It's third part where it at least got more interesting, where the stories of Altaïr's begin, but while it is interesting to read what happened afterwards, you do once again get the impression that it could have been done a lot better. What you miss were more personal conversations again with Maria and Altaïr and other characters. The over all story of the book never really gets very personal.
For Hardcore Assassin's Creed fans who want to know as much as possible it might be worth it to buy this book. But I wouldn't recommend it to others.
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