YanLeiSheng

**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 rest of the AC books use the same writing style, I’ll be giving them a pass.… (more)