The Ming Storm: An Assassin's Creed Novel
by 燕壘生
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The Ming dynasty becomes a battleground for the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Order of the Templars in this blockbuster action novel from a previously unexplored part of the beloved Assassin's Creed universe. China, sixteenth century. The Assassins are gone. Zhang Yong, the relentless leader of the Eight Tigers, took advantage of the emperor's death to eliminate all his opponents, and now the Templars hold all the power. Shao Jun, the last representative of her clan, barely escapes death show more and has no choice but to flee her homeland. Vowing to avenge her former brothers in arms, she travels to Europe to train with the legendary Ezio Auditore. When she returns to the Middle Kingdom, her saber and her determination alone will not be enough to eliminate Zhang Yong: she will have to surround herself with allies and walk in the shadows to defeat the Eight Tigers. show lessTags
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**An ARC of this book was provided to me by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.**
The Ming Storm is the latest novelization of the Assassin's Creed video game franchise. While a long time AC fan, this is my first novelization and I was super excited to get started. Unfortunately, The Ming Storm sacrifices the book's flow and charm for the sake of technical specificity. What could have been a fun action-adventure novel got bogged down by trying to name and describe every specific fighting technique, causing short fights to take up pages and pages of mind-numbing descriptions. The storylines and exhilarating fights are what I love about the Assassin’s Creed video games but this book became a martial arts lecture instead. If the show more rest of the AC books use the same writing style, I’ll be giving them a pass. show less
The Ming Storm is the latest novelization of the Assassin's Creed video game franchise. While a long time AC fan, this is my first novelization and I was super excited to get started. Unfortunately, The Ming Storm sacrifices the book's flow and charm for the sake of technical specificity. What could have been a fun action-adventure novel got bogged down by trying to name and describe every specific fighting technique, causing short fights to take up pages and pages of mind-numbing descriptions. The storylines and exhilarating fights are what I love about the Assassin’s Creed video games but this book became a martial arts lecture instead. If the show more rest of the AC books use the same writing style, I’ll be giving them a pass. show less
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- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy, Historical Fiction
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- 895.136 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Chinese Chinese fiction 2010–
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- GV1469.3391 .A87 .Y36 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Games and amusements Indoor games and amusements Board games. Move games
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