Halo: Ghosts of Onyx Kindle Edition

I am a geek for Sci-Fi and Halo is one of my favorite series of stories. I have purchase the paperback version, the Kindle Version and the Audible version of this book and I have read it and listened to it multiple times. Eric Nylund is my favorite author in the series of Halo books. I like the storylines that he writes and the action is something I really enjoy. Military Sci-Fi is my favorite genre.Eric's books are creative and I like the strategies that he writes into the space battles and the ground battles. This is one of the best Halo books and I found it to be entertaining. You get action that involves Spartan II warriors, Spartan III’s, Dr Halsey and CPO Mendez. The book focuses on the continued development of the Spartan III program and the second generation of the Spartan III’s creation and training.Meanwhile the Covenant is still winning the war but several factions are developing that are causing trouble within the Covenant alliance. Onyx is found to have a secret Forerunner base while it is also the secret training ground for the Spartan III’s. Fighting breaks out between the Spartan III’s and Forerunner Sentinels guarding the ancient alien base. A full war breaks out between the UNSC and the Covenant force over the space above Onyx. They are all trying to survive or capture and use secret advanced Forerunner alien technology to help their side win the war….This is a great story with a lot of action. I liked it a lot. I don't play the Halo game but I have read all of the books in the Halo series. This is a good book and if you are a Halo fan it is a must read.I like the Halo books and this is one of my favorites.This is an excellent story and it is a good book to have in your Halo Sci-Fi library.

Ghosts of Onyx might be my favorite book so far with Fall of Reach being a close second. I always say that Eric's books are my favorite, but this one takes the cake!This book follows a few different storylines than the other books follow, (all except Master Chief for a quick chapter) like Spartan-II Kurt, Spartan-III's, Blue team, Dr Halsey, Commander Richard Lash of the prowler Dusk and Fleet Master Voro 'Mantakree. Each ends up at the planet of Onyx, and each has it's own ghosts they are with. This book starts the history of the Spartan-III and it starts to introduce you to some of their more important members, while moving the story along with Dr Halsey's chapters and the covenant chapters. This book, like most of Eric's books, spans quite a few years so having a memory of what other books and timelines are doing around or at the same time is important to the chapter you are reading. Just so many good aspects of this book!!

Not the best of the Halo novels I've read so far but still great. It is a worthy addition to the lore. It give you an explanation to I'm formation missing the Halo reach (game). It is a must read for a Halo fan. It can be a bit slow going at times and you must read the previous novels to get a full understanding but if you have you'll be glad you read it. The mass market paperback is obviously cheaply made but it still holds very well. If you aren't a person who looks for nice looking books, get the mass market version. It's the same book just smaller.

I'm one of the odd sorts who follows the Halo story without actually playing the games myself. Eric Nylund's books, along with the games and some of the film content, are a key part of this universe, its background and what ties it all together. As much as I enjoyed The Fall of Reach and First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx is probably on another level of storytelling. It's an extremely well-laid-out tale, incorporating some flashbacks, flashforwards and vignettes as usual, all in the service of tracking the main storyline with depth and impact. Think of a wonderfully-edited film; that's what this book is like. If you are coming from the games and the early books, this one is a great next-step in broadening out the world of the Spartans, and Halo as a whole. I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in this franchise.

Ghosts of Onyx is my favorite of all the Halo Books. Reading about the Spartan III's and their Spartan II leader has always been something I enjoyed and this book starts to open up some of the mysteries of the Forerunners as well. You get to see their constructed shield world and some of their technology, along with a last stand against the covenant forces in order to protect this technology from falling into their hands.The characters have grown up in these books and you can really empathize with the hard decisions they have to make, but with the speed they make them after years and years of training. Sacrifice of assets or self is done very methodically and almost with just the slightest bit of emotion but the greater good is always what ends up being the drive for the decisions.If you have read the Halo books, this one is a must buy for you.

Really enjoyed this book. It’s an intriguing read, allowing you to read more into the Spartan 3s and also some Spartan 2s. The book also touches a bit on the great schism and offers an further insight to the Forunners.

I never got round to reading all other earlier Halo novels, but if you have played the games you will not need to do much guesswork and patching up between the author and bungies takes on the Spartan III project. This is overall a blistering brilliant and I would recommend it to any Halo fan. It follows the conceiving of S III and follows up to an attack on the Spartan training ground by a mysterious ancient force. The only problems I do have with this book is that it doesn't account for all of the Spartan III s on Halo: Reach and that energy shields don't seem to protect against gunfire as a single shot to the side side from a covenant plasma rifle can down a Spartan. But overall I found this to be a great book.

Boy likes the book but the condition was rather poor and not as described!

This tells the tale of several lesser-known Spartan IIs as well as the creation and development on the Spartan III programme. It's not essential reading in the grand scheme of things but it is a VERY, VERY good read and I'd highly recomend it to anyone interested in the Halo Universe or even anyone who likes a good read.

If you love the Halo world and ate curious about the background stories this is for you.Likewise if you love a great read about Sci Fi I would also recommend .