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Halo: Ghosts of Onyx
by Eric S. Nylund
Despite not centering around Master Chief (or maybe because of it *ducks*), this was my favorite book of the first (what might be considered) trilogy. It really contains most of the elements that I liked in all the books: Some nonlinear narrative without being confusing, moral impasses, point of view of the covenant as well as the humans, and no emotional development in the protagon- ... scrap the last one.
What I really enjoy about this universe is the many more or less believable factions. We have the humans which are themselves layered in different groups such as the insurrectionists as well as different levels of secret missions and scheming subgroups of the government like the SPARTANS-II and -III, then we have the Covenant, which also develop into a much more heterogeneous group than we might have anticipated with the subjugated Ungoy, the Brutes and Prophets, and lastly the Sangheili, which even revolt into the Schism, furthermore the Forerunners which play a more tacit role, agency-wise yet still influence the course of action dramatically since they set the background, and lastly the flood, which is, to be fair, literally only one character, the hive mind. This allows for a really multilateral dynamic war-wise and it makes me forget/forgive that the development of the individual characters (mostly the humans) is not fleshed out too much. The macroscopic game is spot on.
What I really enjoy about this universe is the many more or less believable factions. We have the humans which are themselves layered in different groups such as the insurrectionists as well as different levels of secret missions and scheming subgroups of the government like the SPARTANS-II and -III, then we have the Covenant, which also develop into a much more heterogeneous group than we might have anticipated with the subjugated Ungoy, the Brutes and Prophets, and lastly the Sangheili, which even revolt into the Schism, furthermore the Forerunners which play a more tacit role, agency-wise yet still influence the course of action dramatically since they set the background, and lastly the flood, which is, to be fair, literally only one character, the hive mind. This allows for a really multilateral dynamic war-wise and it makes me forget/forgive that the development of the individual characters (mostly the humans) is not fleshed out too much. The macroscopic game is spot on.