Title: Okay, not nearly as good as The Fall of Reach
Product review: This book is an acceptable action romp, with plenty of action and gore and etc. However, it suffers from two major flaws. Both can be overlooked, but this book isn't going to be winning any awards.First, the author just isn't that good. The Coventant aren't very convincing, and the marines hollow stereotypes. The description of the actions scenes is passable, but all two often degrades into "Master Chief shot so and so, then turned and shot so and so." Hardly what we want when we can just play the game and get the same effect.Which leads me to the books second major flaw: it's basically the game translated into book form. The parts with the marines are interesting, and fill in some of the background material the game was missing, but the parts with the Master Chief (comprising probably 70% of the book) are scene by scene adaptations of the game, with very little new.The final word? For the average reader, not worth the time. For Halo fans, buy it used.
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