HALO: Glasslands
HALO, Book 11
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Narrated by:
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Euan Morton
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Written by:
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Karen Traviss
About this listen
The first novel of the Kilo-Five Trilogy by number-one New York Times best-selling author Karen Traviss - part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!
It's 2553. The theocratic military alliance known as the Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war with humanity that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and its colonies. For the first time in 30 years, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting has stopped, the war is far from over: It’s just gone underground. The United Nations Space Command’s feared and secretive Office of Naval Intelligence recruits Kilo-Five - a clandestine team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, a Spartan supersoldier, and a diabolical AI - to accelerate the insurrection within the Covenant’s warrior species, the Sangheili, even as their notable defector turned leader, Thel ‘Vadam - the Arbiter - struggles to stave off civil war among his divided people.
Across the galaxy, a woman thought to have died in the Covenant attack on the planet Reach is actually very much alive. Chief scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey broke every law in the book to create the Spartan program, and now, she’s broken some more rules to save them. Marooned with Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez and a Spartan team in a Forerunner slipspace bubble hidden in the destroyed planet Onyx, Halsey finds that this place has been guarding an ancient secret - a treasure trove of Forerunner technology that will change everything for the UNSC and mankind. As Kilo-Five joins the hunt for Halsey, humanity’s violent past begins to catch up with all of them as the disgruntled colony Venezia has been biding its time to strike at Earth...and its most dangerous terrorist has an old, painful link with both Halsey and Kilo-Five that will test everyone’s loyalty to the limit.
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- Jayden Wong
- 2023-05-22
Great book
Compared to some of the other halo novels, HALO: Glasslands stands above a lot of them in terms of overall story telling and the sheer depth of the characters. Traviss does a great job at flushing out the extended universe after the third mainline game.
The narrator was not amazing by any means but the difference in the human voices was good enough to tell who was speaking at all times. Although the same cannot be said for the elites in my opinion.
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- Austin Howe
- 2021-02-09
Great Story
Book one of the Kilo-Five trilogy. This is an amazing Storyline with all kinds of neat stuff going on. gets you really into all the characters so you are invested in their goals and challenges. the main plot itself is really fun and interesting, while still allowing tons of other little adventures into the story. so you get a bunch of little challenges for each character to face and overcome giving you small stories and victories packed into the overarching plot. Everything stays accurate to the true Halo universe and time-line, even answering some questions along the way.
point is, its an amazing trilogy and this book is equally awesome just like the two other books of the series.
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- No one
- 2022-07-04
The book was good but the narrator leave something to be desired
The book itself is good and the kilo five trilogy ads a lot to the halo universe. In my opinion the narration was terrible and unfortunately it takes away from the books
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- clint
- 2020-09-16
so bored
was hard to get through this. if your hoping for a classic halo nook with fight and keeping you on the edge, try something else. in 18 hour long chapters. there is maybe 1 paragraph of action. but if you wanna talk about feelings this may be for you. one of the worst Halo books so far
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- Osvald J.
- 2024-05-24
A debate I to the morality of the Spartan program
This first book tied up some loose ends from Onyx, which I liked. This first book was pretty good, and it updated us on the state of the Covenant. It introduced some new artifacts as well and opened up some interesting potential story lines. However, the second book quickly goes down a path where hard-core military personnel begin to struggle and debate the ethics and morality of the Spartan program. Catherine Halsey is turned into a complete villian while the people at the top like Parangosky become seemingly escape criticism. I don't listen to Halo book to debate ethics. It's Sci-fi not drama...I expected more. It started good in the first book and then ran out of gas. Seemed like the author allowed a bit of their own ideological viewpoints to taint the portrayal of some long time main characters.
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- Jordon L.
- 2024-09-01
Good content but harsh perspective
Some great exposition and character development. Spent the last act bringing the reader down for admiring characters otherwise loved. Great besides that and a lack of action, so fairly angsty.
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