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Subject: Should i read First Strike before Onyx?

YANKEE OSCAR UNIFORM ROMEO ECHO - ALPHA NOVEMBER - INDIA DELTA INDIA OSCAR TANGO - SIERRA OSCAR - SIERRA TANGO FOXTROT UNIFORM!!!! -Me

I bought onyx and I'm wondering if First strike is important to Onyx's story. Sorry but I don't know which forum this really fits in.

  • 07.11.2009 5:54 PM PDT

Your friend is not a reliable source of information

just read them in order, you can never go wrong in books by reading them in order

  • 07.11.2009 5:55 PM PDT

The events of First Strike lead into the events of Ghosts of Onyx. I do suggest reading First Strike first, unless you're fine with just coming into the middle of the story.

  • 07.11.2009 5:57 PM PDT

YANKEE OSCAR UNIFORM ROMEO ECHO - ALPHA NOVEMBER - INDIA DELTA INDIA OSCAR TANGO - SIERRA OSCAR - SIERRA TANGO FOXTROT UNIFORM!!!! -Me

Well I'd only read Reach, First Strike, and Onyx, because I don't like the switch in authors. Their writing style changes. And I might read contact or cole.

  • 07.11.2009 5:58 PM PDT

Reach: 2010

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Well I'd only read Reach, First Strike, and Onyx, because I don't like the switch in authors. Their writing style changes. And I might read contact or cole.


That is an important issue.

  • 07.11.2009 6:00 PM PDT

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The Flood sucked imo. The writing just wasn't good...

The best books were probably Fall of Reach and Ghosts of Onyx. First Strike was pretty good too though, as was Contact Harvest. Contact Harvest was actually really insightful to the whole Forunners/Reclaimers type stuff.

  • 07.11.2009 6:59 PM PDT

Agreed, all of them by Staten were the best.

  • 07.11.2009 8:47 PM PDT

"The next time you see me, I'll be stabbing you to death! Okay?"

Reading First Strike would definetly help you better understand some of the events that take place in Ghosts.

I myself have yet to read Contact Harvest. Cole Protocal was alright.

  • 07.11.2009 9:22 PM PDT

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  • 07.11.2009 9:58 PM PDT
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Yea i think that Reach and Onyx were the best becuz the Flood and First strike were kinda part of the Video game BUT i did like the part when Sergeant Johnson was listening to rock music and the other marines were like why are you listening to that old stuff and he said it gets me pumped up and ready to kick some ass lol

  • 07.11.2009 10:01 PM PDT
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It makes sense to read them in order, not just because they were published that way, but because as others have said, the main events of Onyx (modern events) take place following First Strike, and I can think of at least one major plot device regarding a major novel character that might not make too much sense in Onyx unless you've read First Strike.

  • 07.11.2009 10:21 PM PDT