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Reading “Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey” by Gordon Doherty

Posted on January 1, 2022March 13, 2026 by sonofsagan in Genre Fantasies, Reading...

Gordon Doherty's novelization of the Assassin's Creed: Odyssey video game wonderfully demonstrates everything aesthetically and narratively wrong with so much franchise fiction.

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