Halo:Evolutions

http://xbox.joystiq.com/2009/10/27/halo-evolutions-book-cover-authors-revealed/

I was going to post this earlier, but to be honest I'm not overly excited about this one.

Good thing I'm giving up on the series after Reach

You gave up after Reach? Jesus Vigil, nothing satisfies you. Nooothing!

Anyways, looks like theres some good authors in there.

Can't wait.

Nooo.....I'm giving up after I finish Halo: Reach.

It does have Eric Nylund writing one, but it also has Tobias Buckell, who wrote the awful Cole Protocol and the writer of the Gears of War books as well.

It looks like quite a mixed bag to me. I'll probably read the Nylund story and scroll through the others.

Vigil wrote:Nooo.....I'm giving up after I finish Halo: Reach..

Oh I see, my mistake.

Vigil wrote:It does have Eric Nylund writing one, but it also has Tobias Buckell, who wrote the awful Cole Protocol and the writer of the Gears of War books as well.

It looks like quite a mixed bag to me. I'll probably read the Nylund story and scroll through the others.

I haven't read Cole Protocol yet but I heard it has a lot of Elite backstory, mainly the Arbitor, which I like and want.

I'm currently about half-way through Contact Harvest.

It has a lot of Thel's background and a bit more insight into the Elites Culture and customs, which was pretty interesting.

They fucked up the Spartans big time (they hide in plain sight, without their armour. Yeah like nobody's going to notice a seven foot muscled colossus.), not to mention I'm getting a little sick of 'Captain Keyes is a badass' in every single book. It was good in Fall of Reach as he was mainly in the background, and mostly space battles.

In this it was bordering on the absurd.

Contact Harvest was okay, not great but okay.

Well Master Chief and the other Spartans have been the main focus in the other halo books, so having one with a little more Elite story and culture, sounds about right to me.

When I read through the other books I was generaly interested in what was going on, but when a chapter came up that was Covenant point of view, I got really interested. So a book with more of this and a little of less UNSC/Human/Spartan focus is fine with me.

It's quite like the other books, flipping between the two.

The Rebel POV is interesting and fine, got not problem with that story arc, but it does get damn stupid at the end.

Well I'll see for myself when I read it.

It was pretty poor, but it had some nice ideas in there. Nylunds Books are still the best in the series. (Seriously they really are clinging on his success. It always says 'Continuing the Times best selling book series' at the top, which I think Ghost of Onyx won.)

I wonder what happened to that Foreunner Trilogy they were yacking on about a while back?

I do prefer Nylund as well. But I'm also enjoying Harvest. Whoever wrote that.

I'm guessing that Forerunner Trilogy is still gonna happen. It will probably get a cover reveal either end of this year or Q1 next year.

That Was Joesph Staten, the writer of the Halo games.

Most likely.

I don't think anybody did.

Very very Generic.

Vigil wrote:It has a lot of Thel's background and a bit more insight into the Elites Culture and customs, which was pretty interesting.

Which was the worst part of the book. Whereas the factual information about the Elites was OK, their characters were completely messed up. I ended up skimming through those sections of the book.

On the second read-through, though, things got better. I was actually able to tell the difference between Mexican #1 and Mexican #2.

Vigil wrote:They fucked up the Spartans big time (they hide in plain sight, without their armour. Yeah like nobody's going to notice a seven foot muscled colossus.)

Yeah. That's one of the things that made me throw the book across the room.

As for Halo: Evolutions, I shall buy it, and I think I shall enjoy it.
The Forerunner Trilogy by Greg Bear... I KNOW I shall enjoy that.

I liked Harvest. Never got around to reading Protocol though. Even though this one has Karen Traviss and Nylund, I still am not going to get it.