Ghosts of Onyx (Halo)
Continuing the saga of the award-winning Xbox? game!
The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. But just how many Spartans are left?While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultrasecret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as ?Section Three? devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. They?re going to need hundreds of willing soldiers, though . . . and one more Spartan to get the job done.The planet Onyx is virtually abandoned and the perfect place to set this new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo, something is triggered deep within Onyx: Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, and fleets of UNSC and Covenant race to claim it to change the course of the Human-Covenant War.But this reawakened and ancient force may have plans of its own . . .
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Ghosts of Onyx (Halo) Accessories
 Halo, Books 1-3 (The Flood; First Strike; The Fall of Reach)
Contact Harvest (Halo)
The Halo Graphic Novel
First Strike (Halo #3)
The Flood (Halo #2)
Mass Effect: Revelation
Halo: The Cole Protocol (Halo)
Halo 3 Original Soundtrack (2-CD Set)
The Fall of Reach (Halo, Bk. 1)
The Art of Halo: Creating A Virtual World
Ghosts of Onyx (Halo) Reviews
Mr. Wow, I love Halo and all, but this book is boring and full of typos. Nylund should slap his editor. What the hell. There's a grammatical error in almost every chapter.
It hardly has Master Chief or Cortana, but fills in a lot of the story (and of course leaves a 'cliff hanger' at the end unrelated to the main Halo story arc, thus having me 'wanting more'). My suspicion is that since the Flood was a narrative of the 1st game, it followed the flow of the game (lots of fighting) thus perhaps why it was 'not as good'. can't wait to read it. It also re-unites the remaining surviving spartans II's (except for Master Chief and 'Grey team > Cole Protocol).
It gives more details on the Spartan program, and particular the Spartan III's. This book (again in my opinion) is the best so far. A best buy I have made in a long time. I want to know what else is going on in the Halo Universe and with the rest of the Spartans and this book does a great job in that.
I just got Contact harvest in the mail today. I never played Halo 1 or 2, but have played Halo 3 and was caught up by the excitement. This book is similar in that it follows the 'life' of Kurt as he is the main star. That being said, I never truely appreciated the story and the need to 'finish the fight'. I decided to buy the 3-pack here at amazon (Fall of reach/flood/First Strike) kind of like a filler to get to $25 to get free shipping. Let me preface by saying that I usually do not read books. I know many are 'unhappy' that it is not centered around master chief, but we all know what he is doing in halo 2 and 3.
I soon got excited to see what happened in Halo 2 (still have not played it), but got Ghosts of the Onyx 1st. I think Cole protocol will be a 'similar' and outstanding book as well giving us stories of the other spartans. I liked First Strike the best, followed closely by Fall of reach and then The Flood. I always wondered what the stories some of the other star ships might of had, or wanting to know what the exploits the 'other' Jedi had in star Wars, as all of them likely had excitig stories. It also sheds more light on the fore-runners, and the civil war that the covenenant are having. I remember when watching Star Trek, Battlestar galactica, etc.
Spartan 117 cannot do it all alone. Kurt Ambrose rocks. It's good to know the others are fighting. If the other Spartans are not dead, then they must be engaged in other tasks.
I missed Master Chief. This is a real page turner, I am sorry it was not twice as long then I would have had four days of reading pleasure. I wish our heroes were less prone to dying, yes, powerful enemies and weapons but we out think them. More Halo, PLEASE.
This turns into an arms race between humanity and the Covenant both seeking a desperate edge to turn the tide of war against one another. Section III, responsible for the original Spartan II's creation, once again devises up a plan to create a new , improved breed of Spartans (Spartan III's), in an effort to somehow balance the tide of the war just a bit. I've arrived at my next stop along my reading rampage this summer with the Ghosts of Onyx. There are just a handful of John's (The Master Chief) fellow Spartan II's left and they are fighting a losing war on two fronts against the Covenant and a civil war against the Rebel colonies. A top secret operation is underway at Onyx to train these new Spartans using a familiar Spartan II face. The main question is will it be enough to stop the Covenant forces or will it just buy time for another fight, another day. In Ghosts of Onyx, the situation for humanity is a rather bleak one.
After thoroughly enjoying the first 3 books of this series, I read this book once again. This question is answered in the book and once again Forerunner technology rears its head on, you guessed it, Onyx. The ending is a real trip though and of course is a cliffhanger doing what any good book does, making the reader wanting to immediately want a continuation of the story. Unfortunately, the next Halo book I'm reading I'm told has no Spartans in it, so we will all have to eagerly await when the story is hopefully continued in another 5-6 months.
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