Title: Knight Assassin
Author: Rima Jean
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Release Date: March 4, 2014
"Seventeen-year-old Zayn has special powers she cannot control—powers that others fear and covet. Powers that cause the Templar Knights to burn Zayn’s mother at the stake for witchcraft. When a mysterious stranger tempts Zayn to become the first female member of the heretical Assassins, the chance to seek her revenge lures her in. She trains to harness her supernatural strength and agility, and then enters the King of Jerusalem's court in disguise with the assignment to assassinate Guy de Molay, her mother’s condemner. But once there, she discovers Earic Goodwin, the childhood friend who still holds her heart, among the knights—and his ocean-blue eyes don’t miss a thing. Will vengeance be worth the life of the one love she has left?"
- Goodreads
THE STORY:
I feel like this book had a lot of ups and downs. The beginning was painfully slow, and just when the book would start to pick up, it would suddenly slow back down again. I felt as if a lot of the things I was looking forward to were things that kind of got brushed aside. I wanted to know more about her training, I wanted to get all of the gory details about her time with the assassins, but instead there were just a lot of confusing time jumps with very little explanation as to how she learned her physical skills, as well as how she learned to control her power.
The two main things which were supposed to be plot twists within this story, I found to be very predictable. In fact, one of them we as the readers actually know from the beginning due to the fact that the main character repeatedly says that it can't possibly be the case. Over all, considering how much potential the plot of this book has, I found it to be a let down.
THE CHARACTERS:
I almost don't want to step into this particular pool of water because it is deep, dark, and full of slimy, distasteful things. There is basically nothing good that I can say about the characters in this book. I found the main character to be whiny and rather pathetic, even though she was supposed to be so strong and powerful. Her thought process was annoying and repetitive, and not to mention her rather bad case of nearly insta-love. The only thing saving this book from insta-love is the fact that the two characters have known each other since they were small, and just haven't seen each other in many years. I probably would have enjoyed Earic a lot more if it wasn't for the fact that he is very two dimensional in the book. We don't get a whole lot of back story or personality from him, we merely see him react to the situations which he is put into.
I am not going to discuss any of the more secondary characters because, even though most of them had something to do in the way of plot and moving the story forward, they remain very undeveloped and it is hard, as a reader to find anything worth discussing about them.
MY THOUGHTS:
This book has taken me so long to read, even though it is arguably very short. I was so excited to dive into it when I read that it was going to be a story about a vengeful female assassin, but I found that it just couldn't hold my attention, and what little information we do get about the assassins and what they look like and what their training is like seems as if it all comes from Assassins Creed games. My hopes were high going into this book, and they came crashing terribly down. I do not recommend this book, and I doubt that I will read any more of this series, if that is what it is intended to be.
STAR RATING: ★ 1/2
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