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Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. Oficjalna powieść gry by Gordon Doherty

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nicoleerosen's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

xerlynz_reads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Not bad but not good so in the middle it goes

snapier's review against another edition

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fast-paced

1.0

The worst of the novelisations so far. The writing was abysmal, the characters paper thin, and the book overall had all the atmosphere of a wet fart. I speed read this book, but only so it would be over quicker. I guess this is what happens when you tell someone to fit the story of 45 hours+ of playtime into 350 pages. Give this one a miss and play the game instead.

sabalicious's review against another edition

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adventurous funny informative medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

☆ Review by a Fan Girl - This Will Obviously Be Positive ☆

Where can I even begin with this one? I have played the game and now I've read the book. I can easily forgive anyone for this not being their cup of tea and I know exactly why. There is not much role playing going on in a novel. Assassin's Creed has been a favourite of thousands for years and with every new release we are equally as hooked (at least I know I am). But I have to say I have yet to encounter a character as captivating as our Kassandra.

I believe the author has done a fantastic job with the characterisation of Kassandra and has kept it consistent throughout. The plot of the book was very well presented, and included key events in chronological order all the while paying respect to the 'grind'.

It was honestly a more digestible piece of content for when you feel like playing the game for the story but would prefer to stay in bed. I also enjoyed how the story focused on Kassandra alone and not our other protagonist Layla because I feel like that would have lessened the story, personally. It was a great read with all of the humour and inside jokes from the game.

In sum, I would recommend this to who would enjoy a supercut of the Assassin's Creed Odyssey plot in the Animus (without the DLCs of course).

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casia_w's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

larachii's review against another edition

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1.0

Honestly, I don’t think much of this book. At least I try not to think anything about this.
I DNFed the book somewhere in middle as I just could not force myself to continue. Sorry.

I loved the game. Spent more than 200 hours playing with it, all the DLCs and stuff. Loved Kassandra, she was perky, strong and very much a real protagonist who has her highs and deep. But this is only goes for the game.

This Kassandra? This was nothing. I felt I reading about a dramaqueen teenage pricess. But let’s get a bit more structured with the review even though the book wasn’t.

Firstly, the writing style. It was awful. Long long sentances about nothing which could help the story progress. The narrator focus was non existen; like a little puppy who gets instant distraction from basically anything. It did not lead you in any way. Jumping from one POV to another which was irrelevant regarding the plot. It would be more than enough to see Kassandra’s thoughts.

Secondly, structure: as the narrator did not lead the storry at all basically there was no structure. Whatever came cultist POV, Alexsios POV it just didn’t make any sense. Story building errors on every page. Infodumpings on things which should not be involved and way too less information on necessary things which made the book incomprehensible. There was no purpose to the changing POVs. I was prepared that I won’t get the same experience as from the game however without the knowladge of the game I would give up much much sooner.

I never read anything from this writer, I doubt I will any soon. Not sure how much his hands were tied what has to be in the book and how the execution should look like.
It was a torture to read and I guess it was the same to write.

hawkes's review against another edition

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3.0

The last Assassin's Creed novel I read was the first one with Altair, I enjoyed the way that it fleshed out the canon of the game. I had hoped the same would be true of Odyssey.

Unfortunately I didn't find that to be the case. I enjoyed the battle scenes! But not sure I had enthusiasm for much else. It flew through a lot of the major choices without much impact, especially Alexios's death. The time skips were also confusing at times, and after most of them the explanation was "Kassandra did mercenary things".

Wasn't terrible but I won't read it again.