A review by greenskydragon
Halo: Silentium by Greg Bear

3.0

I cannot stand it when books based on anything outside of their literature [aka a video-game series] suddenly shift ridiculously shift in direction or have boatloads of new, unexplained (and not described) content/concepts/characters from the external source. This book majorly suffered from that. The release of Halo 4 completely destroyed what could have been a rather enjoyable series. As it was, the series blew a few engines with this book, is 'listing to starboard', and it will most likely take a literary miracle to save the series [although I believe this was the last book]. If this is the last, then good riddance, I say, and I warn readers to read the summary to save themselves from the heartache of a ruined piece of literature. I was expecting way better, especially with the brilliance I saw coming out of Primordium. Very disappointed. The only good value this book has is the variety and range of vocabulary words used in it. There you have it, this book's one contribution to literature: a list of new vocab words for writers. Other than that, don't pick it up.