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Halo: Glasslands

Written by: Karen Traviss
Narrated by: Euan Morton
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The first novel of the Kilo-Five Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!

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 thirty 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 super-soldier, 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. Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Military Science Fiction War Solar System Interstellar
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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.

Great book

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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.

Great Story

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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

The book was good but the narrator leave something to be desired

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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

so bored

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such a load of bs and incrimination of Halsey and it never ends not a good book on that end story is ok but ruined by the forced Halsey hate

complete hypocrisy from Karen Traviss

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