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A review by revbeckett
Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric S. Nylund
3.0
If the reader is familiar with the game, Halo: Reach, they are aware that Noble team consisted of SPARTAN-IIIs but are left confused as to where the heck they came from if they haven’t read this book. ‘Ghosts of Onyx’ was published four years before the release of Halo: Reach and tells the tale of the SPARTAN-III programme. We come across Blue Team again, Dr. Catherine Halsey makes an appearance again, and an old, familiar character returns: Chief Mendez, whom we haven’t seen since the first (published) book, ‘Halo: The Fall of Reach,’ the man who trained the notorious SPARTAN-IIs, including the Master Chief.
There are a LOT of spelling and grammatical errors, which seems to be the hallmark of almost every Halo book. Maybe it’s at the fault of the publishers for wanting to push out these books so quickly, so the editors do a poor job of doing what they’re hired to do. I don’t know. But because of these errors and the anticlimactic ending, it makes it quite difficult to read at times, making it a lukewarm read despite the appearances of beloved characters like Mendez and Blue Team. If you can suffer through all this, it is still worth reading about the origins of the SPARTAN-IIIs as well as the emergence of “shield worlds” that I found to be confusing in the game, Halo 3.
There are a LOT of spelling and grammatical errors, which seems to be the hallmark of almost every Halo book. Maybe it’s at the fault of the publishers for wanting to push out these books so quickly, so the editors do a poor job of doing what they’re hired to do. I don’t know. But because of these errors and the anticlimactic ending, it makes it quite difficult to read at times, making it a lukewarm read despite the appearances of beloved characters like Mendez and Blue Team. If you can suffer through all this, it is still worth reading about the origins of the SPARTAN-IIIs as well as the emergence of “shield worlds” that I found to be confusing in the game, Halo 3.