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-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.
Not at all. As I've said many times, I didn't find the story very imaginative and disappointing. I didn't find anything wrong with the writing in it, just the ideas it presented.
Recently I've come under fire by certain individuals for not Giving an explanation for why I find it unimaginative and disappointing, so here's me summing it up the best I can (Robertojh, this is for you since you usually call me out on it):
What I found particularly bland was the idea of an advanced ancient human race. Now if you're a sci-fi fan you'll know that this is an idea that has occurred in many novels recently all the way back to the early years of sci-fi. It just seemed like a weak plot point to have an ancient human race, it's been done. I feel like the author just didn't think the Halo community could accept a novel which didn't have humans in it, because their inclusion was completely unnecessary.
It's never been clearly hinted at that there was an advanced human race, it just came out of no-where. The novel would have been able to completely support itself if it only featured the Forerunners.
Now, my disappointment with this stems from my view on the ideas it presents and my love for the Haloverse. Halo has such huge potential to have an amazing background. That's actually one of the things I liked best about the series, is that it was a sci-fi series which hadn't been made into something ridiculous by it's extended universe. It's still not quite there, but Cryptum took it a step in that direction.
It's just disappointing that this will now be the definitive background to Halo. This overdone, mediocre story. And that's really it's biggest crime, is that the story is just mediocre. It's not bad or good. It just is.
Also, if I can add to my already overly lengthy post, I didn't like how they portrayed the Forerunners. I know that's pretty weak and really just entirely my preconception of what they were like, but the way they were set up before by previous fiction didn't seem represented at all by their Cryptum selves.
[Edited on 06.19.2011 12:35 PM PDT]