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Halo: Glasslands

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 Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Military Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction
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A great batch of characters all brought to life by a great performance, he managed to make over a dozen characters feel lived in and distinct. Where's next months credit already

A thrilling listen from the Halo EU

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Really enjoyed this book and now one of my favourite of all the halo books

The narrator has a real talent for accents too!

Amazing!

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Takes a bit of getting used to the accents being used but once you settle in with it then it’s honestly some of the best narration you’ll ever hear, only problem would be that one character is (according to halopedia) supposedly from Wolverhampton but speaks with a, what I assume, northern accent; chalk it up to being 500 years in the future but it’s such a minor gripe in the scheme of things
Excellent.

Slightly above average book lifted to brilliant by narrator

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It took a while for the Narator to get into. At the start it was difficult to tell what was spoken dioligue and what was thought as the Narators voices blended. However, he soon got into and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Great listen, takes a bit getting used to

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a brilliant book that has left me wanting nothing more than to read the next in the trilogy, highly recommend, it answers a lot of questions whilat raising more, but not in annoying way, in away that makes you excited for the next one

a brilliant book, well written and read,

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