A review by berenikeasteria
Ascension by Drew Karpyshyn

4.0

A lot of what I wrote in my review for Mass Effect: Revelation could easily apply here too. Though this book spans a different era of time – between the first and second games, this time – the style of writing is very similar. Fast paced, easy to read, definitely a page turner that I tore through very quickly. Enjoyable and entertaining, although it wasn’t exactly scintillating stuff. And on the scale of Drew Karpyshyn’s works, it’s one of the better ones, though not his best. To be perfectly honest I’m struggling for things to say in this review because I found the experience so similar to reading Revelation. The only major difference is that Revelation only fleshed out what I already knew would happen/was happening to me as I read it whilst playing the first game. This time I took a pause in between games to read Ascension, and it definitely filled the gap, so to speak. It wasn’t difficult to get insight into some of the troubles looming ahead for my Shepard in the second game. I can already hear Shepard’s groans at the stupidity-induced messes that will need cleaning up. In any case – not a great book, perhaps, but an enjoyable one.

7 out of 10