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All I want to know is if anybody else liked this book and what their opinions are on it. I have no one to discuss it with.

Also is anybody looking forward to the next book in the series?

  • 06.07.2012 8:37 PM PDT

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I did not enjoy it. It was ridiculously one-sided, contains ham-fisted bias towards characters, outright rewrites characters and has reduced the Halo story to one about who can be the biggest dick in the universe.

  • 06.07.2012 8:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
I did not enjoy it. It was ridiculously one-sided, contains ham-fisted bias towards characters, outright rewrites characters and has reduced the Halo story to one about who can be the biggest dick in the universe.


Yeah I agree with you how they made the characters look.

I Liked Lucy and the engineers interacting though.

  • 06.07.2012 8:41 PM PDT

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Lucy was fine. But the one thing that bugged me about her was when she punched Halsey. Her punch should severely injured Halsey, it didn't. It's as if Trvaiss forgot she was a super-solider.

  • 06.07.2012 8:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Lucy was fine. But the one thing that bugged me about her was when she punched Halsey. Her punch should severely injured Halsey, it didn't. It's as if Trvaiss forgot she was a super-solider.


Yeah Black Eye? She should be missing the eye at the least unless she held back a lot and it doesn't say that.

  • 06.07.2012 8:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Lucy was fine. But the one thing that bugged me about her was when she punched Halsey. Her punch should severely injured Halsey, it didn't. It's as if Trvaiss forgot she was a super-solider.


Yeah Black Eye? She should be missing the eye at the least unless she held back a lot and it doesn't say that.


Lucy was very agitated and screamed. No holding back there it seems. Can't help but feel that proves Halsey's point about some of the IIIs, them being flawed and all.

  • 06.07.2012 8:57 PM PDT

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Lucy was fine. But the one thing that bugged me about her was when she punched Halsey. Her punch should severely injured Halsey, it didn't. It's as if Trvaiss forgot she was a super-solider.


Yeah Black Eye? She should be missing the eye at the least unless she held back a lot and it doesn't say that.


Lucy was very agitated and screamed. No holding back there it seems. Can't help but feel that proves Halsey's point about some of the IIIs, them being flawed and all.


And Traviss is sloppy at writing, as I may add. Sure, she was great at Gears of War and Republic Commando books but Halo? No, she said that she never researched on Halo universe hence lot of inconsistency in the Glasslands and some things are... out of context such as almost everyone were against Dr. Halsey for no reason.

I think it became a problem because I noticed that Traviss is implementing her opinion about Halsey via making character to hate Dr. Halsey because of kidnapped children and flash clones.

If I was controlling Halo, I would banish Traviss from writing and ask Eric to write. :)

And slap her for making horrendous book.

[Edited on 06.08.2012 12:55 AM PDT]

  • 06.08.2012 12:12 AM PDT

I thought it was okay but I don't like how it made Halsey seem like a monster for doing the wrong thing for the right reasons especially as the flash cloning was a minor point up to that in the series of books. I slao didn't like randomly adding two new spartans and I hate the plot line that ONI are trying to aggravate the Elites into civil war which in my opinion makes them seem naive in believing the higher up Elites wouldn't associate the arrival of humans with the start of a civil war.
I hope Travis can improve her writing for the next book or even better bring back Eric Nylund.

[Edited on 06.08.2012 4:59 AM PDT]

  • 06.08.2012 4:56 AM PDT
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The dialogue was alright, but many characters were disrespected in my opinion. Comparing Halsey to Mengele was horribly executed and forced.

  • 06.08.2012 5:05 AM PDT

I have to agree with what everyone is saying. I didn't like how two new S-II have just shown up out of the blue. I don't like how Mendez is acting like a 14 year old that just found out that his girlfriend cheated on him. I don't like how Lucy goes ape-blam!- and only give a 60+ year old woman a back eye. I don't like how ONI is trying to start a civil war when they should be rebuilding...and I hate how Osmen just hands all the S-II and S-III files over to a team of ODST so they won't feel bad for Halsey. Oh yea thats another thing I don't like, how Halsey is treated. Also I don't like how Fred was a spinless little kid through out the book.

  • 06.08.2012 5:45 AM PDT
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People rag on Glasslands alot (see previous posts) but it's not that bad. I do think 343 made a big mistake in not getting Nylund to write the new novels.

  • 06.08.2012 6:52 AM PDT


Posted by: wcd45
People rag on Glasslands alot (see previous posts) but it's not that bad. I do think 343 made a big mistake in not getting Nylund to write the new novels.

Sure. If you were to see it as fan fic or something like that. But this was a book written for 343i, which is in control of Halo now. Travis took everything, everyone loved about the Halo lore and did a 180 with it.

  • 06.08.2012 7:23 AM PDT

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Thanks for everyone's Opinions. I do a agree on them Hopefully She Thought more about it and did a lot of research this time around to make her next book a lot better.

  • 06.08.2012 8:07 AM PDT