Contact Harvest (Halo) by Joseph Staten Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Contact Harvest (Halo)
Book Review: Halo book
Summary: 5 Stars
This excerpt of the Halo series was one that my son requested by name. He enjoyed the book, and it just adds to the popularity of the Halo game series on Xbox 360.Book Review: Halo book series
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a very avid fan of the Halo series, both the games and books. This book gives more insight in the background of some of the things and characters one sees unfold in the Halo games. It's a must for the fans, but the general science fiction reader might like it as well. Minor spelling errors aside, it is well written and will not disapoint you. The books sure gave my Halo gaming experience a whole new perspective and impuls with the knowledge I accummulated from the books, in a very positive way!Book Review: Halo, the beginning...
Summary: 5 Stars
This well written book gives you the history of how the war with the Covenent began.Book Review: Halo: How it all began
Summary: 4 Stars
Story:
Staff Sergant Avery Johnson, fresh from fighting the insurectionists on one of earth's colony worlds, is given what he thinks is a burn out assingment: training the planet of Harvest's colonial militia. Not everthing is as it seems though, when cargo ships mysteriously begin exploding for no apparent reason; Johnson is drafted by a represenative of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)to put a stop to what is thought to be the actions of the insurrection. Turns out it actually a scout ship for the alien alliance known as the Conevant. Now Johnson must take his untested troops into battle and hope that they can hold out long enough to evacuate the planet and warn Earth of the approaching hostile aliens.
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This book continues the series decent story line, with fast paced action and plenty of fighting. If your a fan of Halo or military scifi you'll proably find this book interesting. Since this is the prequel to the whole series its not required to know what happens in the other books or what the story line of the game is. If you have been following the other books and the story line of the game then you'll proably have some ah-ha moments where something is finally explained. All in all this is a good scifi adventure that anyone, familar with halo or not, should enjoy.
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Book Review: How One Man Found his Calling!
Summary: 4 Stars
"Be the man I know you can be," were Sgt. Johnson's Aunt's last thing she said to him as she shipped off to Basic when he was 19 years old. Contact Harvest is Joseph Staten's first novel, however, he is not new to writing, and the halo universe, as he is one of the original writers of Halo, and continued to pen Halo 2, and Halo 3.
Contact Harvest takes us to the original "first contact" with the Covenant. However, we open up with a mission gone wrong for Johnson, and we begin to see a man torn between his oath to the Corps, and his humanity. He is a man who is broken, spent, and on his last heels before being transfered to Harvests, the UNSC's furthest reaching colony, and one of the UNSC's largest supplier of food.
Originally planned to be a post for training militiamen to help against the insurrectionists, "first contact" is unexpectedly made. From here the story quickly picks up, as we're thrust into a small planets hope of survival, while a technologically superior force tries to exterminate all the people, and retrieve an Oracle.
Contact Harvest is a great book in the Halo series, as it explains why the story developed the way it did. How the 3 prophets of the Hierarch came to power, Truth, Regret, and Mercy. We learn exactly why the covenant is so "hell bent" on the extermination of humankind. Why the human worlds are so easily found, and why the "Cole Protocol" exists.
While the novel is a good read, and I did give it 4 stars, it just makes the 4 star cut, as I felt the characters could've been a little more developed, and had a little more depth. I would've liked to have read more about Johnson's history, and his fellow Sgt. Byrne, who is supposed to be a rough and tough Marine, but I never felt it from him. The book also took a little bit getting into, however, once the paced picked up, it was solid through and through.
An excellent edition to the Halo Universe. Not to be missed by fans of the series, and readers of all the kind.