Halo: Cryptum (Forerunner Saga, #1) by Greg Bear

3.7 AVERAGE

commander_zander's review against another edition

3.0
Surprisingly delightful prose. Didn't expect this to be one of the biggest-vocabulary books i read this year. Fun characters, fun male-male affection. Plot is not tight but the imagery is great. Fast read.

lory_blanco's review

4.0
3.7 stars

the_slackening's review against another edition

2.0
It was very bland. It felt like an intro to a series that I needed previous knowledge to get on the inside with. Much more do than previous Halo books--i just couldn't get into it, and then there wasn't much action. It finally got interesting about halfway through the book then fizzled again.
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roblef's review against another edition

1.0
Couldn't get through it. I don't know if it was the pressing need to read other, more exciting things or my disinterest in his take on the Halo universe (or my disinterest int he Halo universe to be more exact), but I just. couldn't. do. it.

jameseckman's review

1.0
Couldn't finish it.

arbieroo's review

1.0
Dreadful.

The protagonist is luggage floating in a sea of exposition, carried along by currents of mysterious origin, achieving nothing, influencing nothing. Despite the huge wodges of exposition, I was still completely baffled by the the denouement, having very little idea of who was doing what or why.
Just a huge waste of time. Presumably the Xbox game can't be this dull?

I long since gave up paying for books by Bear but at this point I think I will give up even reading him for free.