The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme, #2)
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Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is put on the trail of the Coffin...
Clash of the Demons (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles #6)
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"You can't make alliances with witches and suchlike and hope to avoid being drawn toward the dark." ...
Batgirl Vol. 1: Silent Knight
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Cassandra Cain is a fighter like no other. At only 17, the teenage assassin takes down enemies three...
The Crown Tower (The Riyria Chronicles, #1)
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A warrior with nothing to fight for is paired with a thieving assassin with nothing to lose....
Hell’s Corner (Camel Club #5)
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John Carr, aka Oliver Stone – once the most skilled assassin his country ever had – stands in...
Last Man Standing
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Web London was trained to penetrate hostile ground and come out alive. Then ten seconds in a dark...
Masks (A Mircea Basarab Novel)
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Fifteenth century Venice is a safe haven for the masterless dregs of the vampire world, a city where...
urban fantasy
Colorado Wild (Colorado Heart, #1)
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When love sneaks up on you, shoot for the heart. Billy Bradford has a secret, and it's bigger...
Contemporary MM Military Romance
Connor Sheffield (293 KP) rated Assassin's Creed: Forsaken in Books
May 15, 2017
The 5th book in the Oliver Bowden collection of Assassin's Creed novels, follows the life of Haytham Kenway, son of Pirate / Assassin, Edward Kenway and father of the Native American Assassin Connor Kenway, who you play as in the video game Assassin's Creed 3.
Haytham is a British Templar who is sent to America during the French and Indian and American Revolutionary Wars, to learn more about, and find an ancient cave that would help the Templar Order discover more about the first civilization, also known as 'Those who came before'. After centuries of the two factions, Assassins and Templar, fighting a never ending war in secret, over advanced technology known as the Pieces of Eden, created by the first civilization.
Though it is interesting to learn more about Haytham, since we only get to play a small part of his story in the video game, my only issue, though minor it may be, with the book is that the journal format limits our experience of the story to the view point of one man, and there are so many interesting characters within the plot that are sure to have their own interesting stories to be told, but sadly we are limited to one man's thoughts and opinions, and learn very little about other characters, besides their outspoken interactions with Haytham.
However this book is exciting and really does open up a whole new story within the franchise that we do not get to see. The descriptive writing ensures that the world that is described to us, is enough to clearly imagine, as the writer imagines it, in our minds, but enough for us to also have our own image of the areas, the surroundings and the sights, sounds and smells of such a place that our protagonist visits.
If you're a fan of the franchise then I highly recommend any of these novels to you, because they open up so much more to the characters and the stories that we do not get within the games. This is what makes the books such an exciting read, because we get to delve deep inside the minds of the characters, from start to finish.
Hazel (2934 KP) rated Absolution: A Leine Basso Thriller in Books
Mar 24, 2019
Leine finds herself in a life and death struggle with her nemesis, Salome, a particularly nasty terrorist and assassin (are there any other kinds!) who is after Leine and those she holds most dear. Leine has to use all her skills honed when she herself was an assassin but also those gained whilst working for an organisation called SHEN who rescue victims of human trafficking.
What we are provided with in this book is action, adventure and a thrill-a-minute. What we are not provided with is loads of bad language, gratuitous violence and graphic descriptions of death ... don't get me wrong, there is violence but nothing that you would not expect in a book dealing with assassins, terrorism and trafficking; the author just doesn't go over the top, in fact she doesn't need to as she just lets her writing and the story do the talking.
With excellent characters - and I am particularly pleased to see the return of Jinn, the little streetwise girl Leine saved from being murdered in "Dark Return" - suspense from start to finish and an exciting story, this book grabbed me by the "short and curlies" and refused to let go until the last letter.
I want to thank DV Berkom for providing me with a copy in return for an honest review and for writing another fantastic book which I have no hesitation in recommending this and the rest of the series to anyone but particularly those of you who love a strong, female lead character who has a sensitive and loving side but who is not afraid to kick some rear ends!