The Ming Storm: An Assassin's Creed Novel by Yan Lei ShengMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
2.5 Stars
Due to my crazy love for this video game, I was so eager to read this book in addition to the fact that it's set in the Ming dynasty China which is a dynasty that fascinates me so much and also because of a female assassin.
Well, it started so well with Zhang Yong as a great villain and the leader of the Eight Tigers, the fight were well discribed but then it got too much with all the blah, blah, blah about the different kung fu fighting styles with some nonsense about their origines that were SO irrelevant and I could careless. There were some good fights even if everyone can fly while fighting like "Tiger and Dragon" or Jet Lee's style but all those long descriptions killed my joy of reading this book.
Also, what made me rolling my eyes several times during this book was Shao Jun's great freaking luck, for me, she is not the hero of this book, her character is so lame dumb and lifeless. What make me angry more was the over use of insulting her with the "W" word, I started to count then I gave up because it looks like the author made it like her title!! Why?!
I feel like I've read a script for an historical movie and not a book. I'm so disappointed with this book but I knew that things made based on a video game rarely succeed either it is a movie or a book like here.
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