Revelations
Assassin's Creed Book 4
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Publisher Description
Assassin's Creed: Revelations is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series.
Older, wiser and more deadly than ever, Master Assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an epic journey to find the lost library of Altair - a library that may hold the key to defeating the Templars for ever. However, a shocking discovery awaits him.
The library holds no only a hidden knowledge but also the most unsettling secret the world has ever known; a secret the Templars hope to use to control humankind's destiny. Five keys are needed to access the library - to find them, Ezio must travel to the troubled city of Constantinople, where a growing army of Templars threaten to estabalize the Ottoman Empire.
Walking in the footsteps of his predecessor, Altair, Ezio must defeat the Templars for the final time. For the stakes have never been higher, and what started as a pilgrimage has become a race against time...
Assassin's Creed: Revelations is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Fans of the game will love these stories. Other titles in the series include Assassin's Creed: Renaissance, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade, and Assassin's Creed: Forsaken.
Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist.
Customer Reviews
Like the Game with Liberties Taken
Bowden's interpretation of the complicated character of Ezio Auditore is noticeably different to the game's character, despite the dialogue being nearly identical. Of course, added dialogue and environmental descriptions gives the author the freedom to mould his characters and the world in which they live to what can be considered a more realistic appearance.
For example, to increase the length of conversations or if inventing an entirely new scene, Bowden will often make characters use a lot of profanity or threats, depending on what events are occuring. This can be regarded by the reader as sometimes appropriate - because when considering the era in which the story is set the violence and crime can be emphasised through foul language - however it can also be seen as inappropriate. This links me back to Bowden's interpretation of Ezio. Ezio, rather than being the confident ladies' man of the games, is a character with fears and loves, and seems at times easily angered, especially by his enemies. This seems hypocritical because in the previous books he did not want to kill Rodrigo Borgia, despite that character being responsible for most of his family's death. You could argue that after Mario's death, and with old age, Ezio has become a completely ruthless, ill-tempered assassin, but when Ezio swears, at some point, in front of Sophia (spoilers?) it just does not seem like the charming Ezio we know and love.
Bowden does continue the story of Revelations by filling in the gaps and presenting Embers, but this could have been expanded across more pages. He, like when shining good light upon Julius II in Brotherhood, also shines good light on the Medicis and quickly rushes past the fact that the historical Medicis had Machiavelli tortured.
Despite what may have seemed like alot of criticism on my part, Bowden has done quite a good job at compiling the story of Assassin's Creed by Ubisoft Montreal and adding much of his own elements to the story. Hope this review helps all who read it. :)
assassins creed
the book was really good and had lots of fight scenes 5/5