Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

Sequel of Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

Ezio Auditore, the main character, needs to overpower and free Rome from the Borgia tyranny, that they are building up in order to become rulers of Italy
Very gruesome parts, for example on page 126 and page 127: "Overtaking a sixth, Ezio leant down and, turning backwards, ripped the man's stomach open so that his guts spilled onto the ground and he stumbled over them as he fell and died."

Many people die even in first pages of this book

Not recommended to people who can't stand tortures, especially when they describe them in detail

This book has other themes other than war, like love; Ezio in fact falls in love with many women, but after a series of events that take place in the book, the path of the two lovers eventually separates 

The author uses a variety of vocabulary; he uses a lot of different adjectives in order to not annoy the reader and make the story more interesting

There are many people that have really existed like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Niccolò Machiavelli, the Borgia family and Caterina Sforza

The end of the book is the end of the book like many others; but it always leaves you a hint so that you can understand that it is not finished and that there will be a sequel (it did it also in the first book of the series). The last part of the book tells about these three great friends (I'll not mention the names if not I'll ruin you the book), that will divide to go in different directions but fate will join them again

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

     Very adventurous

     Descriptive

Not realistic- at the end they are thrown out of a volcano of the islands near Sicily having travelled underground from the Icelandic volcano of Sneffels

Fantasy book

Good idea of code to decipher- old parchment in an old book

Not recommended to people who don’t like fantasy and adventure books

Jules Verne- good author of books- other books are “Twenty thousand leagues under the sea level” which I would like to read

Lot of action taking place

There are some boring parts like when Axel and his uncle depart for the journey from Denmark to the inside of Mount Sneffels

The progress of the events in the book is normal: neither too fast and neither too slowly

In my opinion, this is the best classic book that I’ve ever read

Good relationship between Axel and his uncle, professor Lidenbrock, and their guide Hans, the Icelander 

The voyage that they take is full of obstacles, like sea monsters and many other strange encounters that make this book ultra-fascinating

The setting changes a lot of times because this book has lot of action, both on the ground and underground: Hamburg in Germany, Denmark, Iceland, in the subterranean strata, Stromboli- a little Italian island near to Sicily 

Assassin's Creed: Renaissance

Author uses a lot of description, many researched words

There is a lot of action taking place

Some characters are invented like the main one Ezio Auditore and all of his family; others instead are true ones like Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, Sforza family, Medici family, Pazzi family, Savonarola and many others

It takes place in all Italy during Renaissance- main character travels in Tuscany (Firenze and nearby little towns), Venice and near Milan

There is the order of the Templar knights in the story

It tells facts that are really happened like the assassination of the brother of Lorenzo il Magnifico, which is called Giulio, killed by the Pazzi family that wanted to lead Florence

The author doesn’t put a lot of dialogue; only when it is essential e.g. there is an important scene like a dialogue between Leonardo and the main character Ezio Auditore or a dialogue between the enemies that are planning the assassination of Lorenzo il Magnifico

This book is the first of the series of a collection of four booksIn this book there is a lot of history

There are many brutal scenes, like of torture and especially killing, in fact on average, every ten to twenty pages a person or two die

I recommend this book to people who like action and adventure books, that has even a bit of history in it, but not to people who don’t support scenes of killing and torturing, because it has a lot of them in it