Out of the Halo novels what ones are worth reading?

Mattie G Indahouse · March 26, 2015, 07:06:15 AM

The ones I have are Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx, Contact Harvest and Cole Protocol. The first four I enjoyed reading but Harvest and CP I found boring and couldn't get into. So what other Halo novels are there that are worth reading? Don't list any Karen Travis ones since I know I wouldn't be able to read those. I have a few of here Star Wars books and I can't get past the first few chapters because I find them boring.

Tyger · March 26, 2015, 07:11:13 AM

>reading halo novels

The Lord Ruler · March 26, 2015, 07:27:08 AM

Ghosts of Onyx is the best one

A Cheese Potato · March 26, 2015, 07:28:29 AM

Quote from: Tyger on March 26, 2015, 07:11:13 AM

>reading halo novels

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Flee · March 26, 2015, 07:29:09 AM

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Mattie G Indahouse · March 26, 2015, 07:45:04 AM

Quote from: The Lord Ruler on March 26, 2015, 07:27:08 AM

Ghosts of Onyx is the best one

I forgot about that one. That was also a good book. It's a shame how the first four were good and then came shit.

The Lord Ruler · March 26, 2015, 07:49:29 AM

Quote from: BerzerkCommando on March 26, 2015, 07:45:04 AM

Quote from: The Lord Ruler on March 26, 2015, 07:27:08 AM
Ghosts of Onyx is the best one
I forgot about that one. That was also a good book. It's a shame how the first four were good and then came shit.

Yeah Karen's stuff was kinda bad but I liked the forerunner trilogy.

Evolutions was good too.

BaconShelf · March 26, 2015, 07:58:09 AM

Forerunner Saga is good if you like the LoTR books, though Primordium is basically just a walking tale. However, Silentium is a very good read and Cryptum isn't bad.
Broken Circle is amazing, and gives a lot of insight into the early days of the Covenant and the Schism from the POV of the Covenant- no human characters.
New Blood is good and short if you want to know what happened to the ODST guys.
Evolutions are just short stories that don't have any direct connections.

Turkey · March 26, 2015, 09:05:40 AM

I wish they could get some really good sci-fi writers in the series. Most of the books read like mountain dew-fueled teenage action wet dreams. The forerunner trilogy was an improvement on the style, but it's still pretty bad in a lot of places.

gats · March 26, 2015, 09:20:30 AM

I've only read the fall of reach. I enjoyed it a lot tbh

Mr Speedrun · March 26, 2015, 09:23:20 AM

Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, and Halo: First Strike.

Sprungli · March 26, 2015, 10:51:23 AM

Quote from: Mr Speedrun on March 26, 2015, 09:23:20 AM

Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, and Halo: First Strike.

^this

big sponge · March 26, 2015, 11:50:39 AM

The Nylund books are trash, the Travis books are worse than Trash.

The Flood is also Trash, skip it if you've played Halo: CE.

The Greg Bear and Staten books are decent.

Corrupt Setter · March 26, 2015, 01:27:57 PM

I enjoyed Fall of Reach and Ghosts of Onyx.

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Sigma617 · March 26, 2015, 02:07:33 PM

There was a book that came out in I want to say October? First Halo book in years that wasn't a chore to read through.
It was called Broken Circle.

There's no UNSC bravado in it at all, but if you want a better look at an earlier Covenant, give it a shot.
LITERAL SPOILER INBOUND:

Spoiler

Also it transitions to the Great Schism about halfway through the book.

Big Boss · March 26, 2015, 02:08:58 PM

When I was on holiday I was bored as fuck and the only book I had was Ghosts of Onyx which I read like 3 times.

Septy · March 26, 2015, 03:51:11 PM

If it's not written by Nylund then its shit.

Korra · March 26, 2015, 03:57:47 PM

Fall of Reach, First Strike, Ghost of Onyx, Cole Protocol and the entire Forerunner Saga.

DAS B00T x2 · March 26, 2015, 04:37:22 PM

Harvest is the only good one.

Batch · March 26, 2015, 06:18:52 PM

I dont know why no one else liked the Kilo 5 trilogy. ...just couldn't put those down, and the engineer love :3

*sips tea*

Girl of Mystery · March 26, 2015, 06:44:14 PM

Quote from: Batch on March 26, 2015, 06:18:52 PM

I dont know why no one else liked the Kilo 5 trilogy. ...just couldn't put those down, and the engineer love :3

*sips tea*

Because Karen Travis is a hackjob writer that disregards things that are in the series she's doing work on.

Mattie G Indahouse · March 26, 2015, 06:49:33 PM

Quote from: BritishLemön on March 26, 2015, 06:44:14 PM

Quote from: Batch on March 26, 2015, 06:18:52 PM
I dont know why no one else liked the Kilo 5 trilogy. ...just couldn't put those down, and the engineer love :3

*sips tea*
Because Karen Travis is a hackjob writer that disregards things that are in the series she's doing work on.

For Star Wars I love that she thinks the Clone Army had a total of 3million clones. That's not even enough to do a single planetary war. In WW2 the US estimated the invasion of Japan would have cost around 1million causalities. That number is just or our boys. So the number of troops sent there would be around 3 million.

Korra · March 26, 2015, 07:41:02 PM

Quote from: BerzerkCommando on March 26, 2015, 06:49:33 PM

Quote from: BritishLemön on March 26, 2015, 06:44:14 PM
Quote from: Batch on March 26, 2015, 06:18:52 PM
I dont know why no one else liked the Kilo 5 trilogy. ...just couldn't put those down, and the engineer love :3

*sips tea*
Because Karen Travis is a hackjob writer that disregards things that are in the series she's doing work on.
For Star Wars I love that she thinks the Clone Army had a total of 3million clones. That's not even enough to do a single planetary war. In WW2 the US estimated the invasion of Japan would have cost around 1million causalities. That number is just or our boys. So the number of troops sent there would be around 3 million.

Does that mean we have a Clone Army?

Statefarm · March 26, 2015, 07:43:31 PM

Quote from: LC on March 26, 2015, 11:50:39 AM

The Nylund books are trash

LOL

BaconShelf · March 27, 2015, 04:33:18 AM

Quote from: BerzerkCommando on March 26, 2015, 06:49:33 PM

Quote from: BritishLemön on March 26, 2015, 06:44:14 PM
Quote from: Batch on March 26, 2015, 06:18:52 PM
I dont know why no one else liked the Kilo 5 trilogy. ...just couldn't put those down, and the engineer love :3

*sips tea*
Because Karen Travis is a hackjob writer that disregards things that are in the series she's doing work on.
For Star Wars I love that she thinks the Clone Army had a total of 3million clones. That's not even enough to do a single planetary war. In WW2 the US estimated the invasion of Japan would have cost around 1million causalities. That number is just or our boys. So the number of troops sent there would be around 3 million.

I just pretend it's a typo and it was actually supposed to say 3 billion.

Her books are good, but just shit at sticking to a pre-established canon.

I would definetly pick up the first two K5 books if you want more info on how Jul 'Mdama and his Covenant got started up.

Hawk · March 27, 2015, 06:52:05 PM

Fall of Reach was awesome

Doctor Doom · March 29, 2015, 01:38:12 AM

The Kilo-5 books are an example of a good idea done badly. Still, I liked the story they were trying to tell.

The Forerunner Trilogy is an example of a bad idea done badly, then salvaged at the end. I strongly recommend Silentium, but first you'll have to struggle to stay awake through Cryptum. Skip Primordium entirely, it's complete garbage.