Dishonored - The Corroded Man (Video Game Saga)

It's fun! It's engaging. It feels like the author played the game and understood the play mechanics and the logic behind them. That's brilliantly and cleverly incorporated into the writing and action, which is just such a joy to read as someone who enjoyed the games. Totally recommend if you played the games.

I really enjoyed reading this book. As a fan of the games, you get that sense of nostalgia. Following Emily and Corvo in their world, you want to immerse yourself in their next story and cheer for them. The locations and everything else bring back memories from the games. Really good read, highly recommended.

A good edition to the Dishonored series but feels too safe in regards to its subject material. A lot of what was already seen in terms of the actual first game and it's story DLC's. Has a few good surprises with character appearances as well as new characters but all n' all, the plot is very predictable. I am enjoying it but the pacing is fairly slow, it only picks up at the half way mark. If you're a super fan of the series, then yes, I would recommend this book, it's a nice downtime book. If you're just a casual fan, you won't really miss much if you don't read it.

I understand where the negative reviews are coming from, but I was a little apprehensive about this book, and therefore had low expectations. I ended up enjoying it for what it was. I love everything Dishonored, and this book gave me some satisfaction until the release of the second game. I liked getting the background info on certain characters, and seeing what came directly after the events of the first game. It doesn't seem to touch on anything related to the second game at all (at least from what we know of it), so that may be disappointing for some. It takes place 15 years after the first game, although there is some jumping back and forth in time that gets confusing if you don't pay attention at the beginning of every chapter (I am guilty of this). Emily is portrayed as someone who still has a lot of learning and growing up to do. I found myself frustrated with her character and her tendency to involve herself in danger without really knowing what she was doing. And Corvo wasn't as ruthless as you expect or hope him to be. But, I enjoyed the storyline overall, and found it easy to read. If you love Dishonored, it's worth it to check this one out and make the judgements for yourself.

SPOILERS IN REVIEW, TREAD CAREFULLY. Pros: It's Dishonored, so there's a lot of callbacks to lore we saw in the games. Reading something about one of your favorite games is always really cool; it feels like you're reading good, published fanfiction. Everyone seemed to be somewhat in-character and Zhukov was pretty interesting. The twin-bladed knife making an appearance was neat. Tyvia isn't touched on much in the games, either, so it was cool to see someone from there and get to know a little more about how Tyvia worked. Also, Wyman's gender was only revealed once during the story which I was happy about because I had heard that Wyman was meant to be nonbinary or open to interpretation but better beta reading would have sufficed here since the team did let one pronoun slip through. It was working fine with no pronouns so removing it wouldn't have been difficult or changed anything for the worse. Cons: Unfortunately, a lot more than the pros. While there were far less typos than I'm used to (as an avid reader of Kindle Unlimited, where beta reading is either not done at all or done sloppily), there were still a few, which seems upsetting in a book priced for eight dollars that was (supposedly) read by at least one member of the Arkane team. At one point, the author even misspells a somewhat-major character's name -- TWICE. Her name is Waverly, but the author misspelled it as Waverley twice and then wrote it correctly all the other times. This isn't even a name he made up; it's easy to google "waverley boyle" and see it's spelled Waverly, if one is unsure. There was another typo or two in the book which had me disappointed, since it's supposed to be a professional book, you know? Anyway, that didn't ruin it for me, but it was upsetting to see. Previous reviews mention that some parts drag on for too long, which is true. The book feels like you're playing the game, just not in the good way. It feels like you're going through the missions which can take a while if you're not speedrunning it, so you're at the same location for a long time. That's what happened with the book. We were at certain major locations for a long time, to the point it started getting kind of exhausting ... and then whatever big things were supposed to happen weren't satisfying in the least. The vault wasn't a shock. Zhukov is spending the entire time going after bones so it was pretty obvious what was in there. The future Emily was seeing where she's a dictator and Corvo is a murderous maniac makes little to no sense. Why would any of that happen, and even if it did, why would Corvo go along with this weird fantasy Emily is having in that future of killing people just for kicks? Super 3edgy5u ... and no explanation was given. And then the way Galia's story ended ... was just anticlimactic, and not in an interesting way, since I am pretty interested in anticlimaxes, but this was just done poorly. For shock value, really. Also, just a small annoyance, but I got frustrated at the "excerpt from a [insert book description here]" under the quotes for every chapter (and tbh the excerpts didn't even need to be included as it should be pretty obvious that the people reading have played the game and probably found the books that were being quoted, so at this point it's just meaningless repetition). Like "excerpt from a volume on nobility ranks and positions" or whatever, we can kind of gather that from the content ... there were only like one or two quotes that actually needed the "excerpt from a" explanation. The rest it just felt like it was assumed we were stupid and couldn't figure out what was being talked about. And finally, one last complaint -- the "all people were equal, but some were more equal than others" or whatever about Tyvia. Like, I'm sorry, I love Animal Farm as much as the next person, but it is REALLY lame when someone resorts to putting something like that in a PUBLISHED WORK. Like, in fanfiction on the internet for fun? Maybe you can make it work. But referencing a published book in your own published book like that? Super tacky, and super boring that the author saw a fantasy version of Russia/China/East Asia and immediately was like "Oh, it's like Russia? So I should focus entirely on communism, labor camps, frigid temperatures, and Animal Farm." I'm not gonna write an essay about it but I hope you see what I mean when I say this was really tacky and stupid to put in there and I literally rolled my eyes when reading it. The only things I found myself really brightening up about were Slackjaw having a role and Corvo's Outsider abilities being talked about since I was half-expecting they might be forgotten entirely. Though I'm really not sure why Corvo is friendly with the Overseers, but that might be personal bias. I know the monarchy has ties with the Overseers and employs them when necessary but it just felt ... really weird, after seeing the events of the first game, even with Corvo having saved Overseer Martin ... he was a traitor to them, anyway, so Corvo shouldn't have had any positive feelings about the Abbey. But, like I said, personal bias, so I'll leave that one alone. Overall, it wasn't a terrible book! It wasn't. I just didn't really have a good time reading it. I only pushed on because I paid money for it and I knew that it could be good in some parts, and I just needed to find those parts. The author's description is alright, it doesn't get too boring, it's just ... tacky with errors that even unpublished fanfiction authors know how to avoid. It would have felt far more appropriate seeing this on AO3 rather than a published work. Not that fics on AO3 are bad -- in fact, a lot of them are better than this book -- but it's something I would have expected to find with comments below it telling how the author could improve, which isn't something I want to see in a published book that was assumedly reviewed by the creators. Buy it if you want, just don't expect a masterpiece, because it's definitely not.

If you're a fan of Dishonored, you'll enjoy it. From someone who's read a fair amount of novels based off of video games, it is by no means is it the best video game novel ever, but it's enjoyable. For less than $10 I'd say it's completely worth it, and to those who complain about the dialogue being subpar, seriously? You really must've been looking to nitpick. It's a fun read if you're not looking to pick it apart or question every sentence or action sequence. It felt very "Dishonored" to me and I think it was a good book to release before the game. It was super action packed, no slow parts, definitely a quick read!

Was reading after Deus Ex BL and was not disappointed. So Deus Ex is 5 stars with a little minus but the mark of Dishonored is 5 stars with 2 pluses. This book is a great work of author, the story line is full of details and intriguing turns. Sometimes you too deep into story and you feel the action very clear. Every word at the right place and every thought is organic and finished.

Llegó como nuevo y estoy satisfecho con el producto.

A me è piaciuto, non è eccezionale ma si legge bene, l'inglese che usa l'autore non è troppo complicato. Solo di rado mi fermavo per cercare qualche parola sul dizionario. La storia e l'ambientazione sono molto valide, come del resto il gioco.

Adam Christopher has done an amazing job for the first Dishonored novel. As someone who frequently buys but rarely finishes a book, he's captivated me from start to finish and it's clear he understands these characters and their minds. It's an excellent read, I'd recommend it to any fan of Dishonored. Can't wait for books 2 and 3!

The book itself is a good read, the book's condition wasn't great though. One corner was badly crushed and one edge was really scuffed.

The author captures the game universe perfectly. However, writing feels a bit loose in the middle. Starting is good. The action is good. Overall a good book.