Halo: The Fall of Reach Kindle Edition

I read this book years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Nylund is an excellent writer and does a great job at capturing the deprevaity of the covenant. The book does a phenomenal job at at providing us insight into the spartan program and the candidates training at a very young age. It shows the early life of John 117 along with blue team as well as giving you an insight to his mind and the spartan program. It also displays the mother-ish relationship between Halsey and the Spartans. A must read for Halo fans

Got it in 2 days no bent pages or anything of that nature.

Amazingly written. After playing every game growing up and know much of the lore, it was amazing to read this book and see all of the information that I have been learning throughout the games. Perfect depictions of space battles and the SPARTANS and how they work are written to perfection. My absolute go to series for sci-fi battles and future depictions of the Human race.

I dont normally spend this much on a book, or at least if it's in my library, I dont. However I started watch the series HALO and now I'm hooked. This is a great series so far but its just getting started. Oh to be a millionaire and be able to afford all the series at once. I'm going to continue to buy these one at a time and slow my reading speed so I might be able to afford the next one. I am in my 60s and living cheap so everything counts at th his age. Thanks for a great read and I'll be back for more.

~3.5/5~An enjoyable introduction to the Halo universe...Admittedly, my experience with this book was heavily skewed by my fondness for Halo: Reach (the game). This led to a keen focus on inconsistencies in plot elements surrounding the fall of Reach (when comparing the two).However, considering Nylund wrote this novel years before Halo: Reach, in a brief amount of time, and with relatively limited information about the Halo universe - It's an impressive read. As a hardcore Halo fan, I appreciated learning about the "origin" of certain Halo characters and stories; I especially enjoyed diving deeper into the characters of Captain Keyes, Dr. Halsey, and the Spartan-II's.All in all, an enjoyable read, and a necessary one for Halo fans (or fans of Sci-Fi in general).

This was a great read and provided the understanding I wanted about Halo and Master Chiefs beginning. Off to find out what is next.

From the start, as the Master Chief and his team kill countless Grunts, you can feel the adrenaline that the Chief would have felt... and that's it... you are hooked. So many close calls and near-death experiences keep you, the reader, on edge. You have the chance to experience the life of a legend, to walk in his shoes. All of the experiences you and the Cheif go through give immeasurable value to the Halo games. Unfortunately, I almost wish I could forget the book and read it again to have the same thrill as the first time I read it. All around an amazing book.The only notable flaw with the events of the game is halo reach. In the game, noble 6 gives Cortana to the pillar of Autumn that had been stationed for restorations, but in this book, the pillar of Autumn never actually enters into the planet's atmosphere plus Cortana had been given to the chief a while before the battle of reach, but that is it.I would rate this book a 6 out of 5 stars. Would read again... for the 5th time... I'm not a psychopath... I promise... read this book

I don't understand all the 5 star reviews of this and subsequent books by this author. I guess I'm just not enough of a Halo fan-boy to not notice all the places in these books that the author demonstrates his lack of knowledge about zero-g physics. Given that a lot of this is well known by now after mankind reached the moon in 1969, occupied Skylab in 1973 and both predate this series by many years there's really no excuse.The author writes about space flight and battle as if these books were written in the late forties and early fifties, i.e. space ship maneuvers are written as you'd describe 1800's sea battles. And it's done that way throughout the book including the captain's commands.Physics:1. In Real Life (IRL) Space vehicles don't burn their main engines unless accelerating or decelerating. Once in zero-g they cut the engines and coast. The other side of that particular coin is that IRL a space vehicle will NOT stop simply by cutting the engines. So the captain of a space vehicle doesn't order full stop and the "helmsman" doesn't respond "Aye" and cut off the engines to stop. that error is made many times in these books.2. Space vehicles are not on the surface of an ocean, so you don't "come about". You can't come to heading 215 or any other compass type heading. In a space battle in zero-g damaged space vehicles aren't going to "list" like a ship on water. They might roll, pitch, yaw or any conceivable combination of those movement at the same time and that movement will continue until countered by thrusters (e.g.).3. In these books space vehicles are using tactics such as firing "broadsiders". Again, the author doesn't seem to be able to conceive of warfare in space as any different that what he must have read as a kid in the Captain Hornblower books.In the universe of these Halo books you have super advanced AI's and computer systems that are not being used as weapon fire control systems on space vehicles moving at huge speeds while crew members set up firing solutions manually and captains make split second decisions when to call "fire!". Really?The list goes on and on. Error after error page after page.On the military side of things, why have familiar sounding ranks and then pretty much ignore them or jumble up different ranks? For example, you can have petty officers. You can have warrant officers. You can have officers. But at least once in these books someone was described a "Petty Warrant Officer". Huh?You don't see all this kind of stuff so much in the games because it's all action. It's in books that writers expound on things to "paint the pictures". If a writer is going to write Science Fiction then the writer needs to have a better grasp on what is being written about than just the intended plot or what's in the video games.For me the huge number of errors, of which I've only mentions the barest few, in the science as well as the military side are a huge distraction and make the books some of the worst SF I've read in many years.

Bought it for Kindle and loved it. Tells a lot about the Spartan IIs and their first contacts with the Covenant and of course the Fall of Reach

I loved it

Great read! I absolutely love Halo and it's entire universe. Eric Nylund has not just managed to bring to life my favourite video game but has brought with it some much needed narrative and dimension to the characters.

英語で読みづらいですが、英語がわかる人には読めそうです。全部で340ページぐらいあるので読むのに苦労しそうです＾＾；英語がほとんどわからない人は調べながら読むと英語の勉強にもなるのでいいと思います＾＾全部英語の意味を調べて全部読むぞー！！

...yeah, what the heading says.