I’m a pretty big Halo reader, and I thoroughly enjoyed each and every Halo novel, save for GLASSLANDS. My Gawd, that book was PAINFUL. The writing was bad, the old characters such as Halsey and Mendez were terribly portrayed, Traviss’ original characters were nothing but boring and trite Mary Sues that we’ve seen done hundreds of times and Kilo-Five felt more like some rag-tag team of mercenaries than actual military personnel.
I could go on, but for the sake of brevity, I’ll just say that I got no enjoyment out of Glasslands, should I get Thursday War? Or should I preserve my sanity and just read about it on Halopedia?
Well this is obviously your opinion but I actually liked Glasslands. Saying that, I thought Thursday War was better than Glasslands.
> Well this is obviously your opinion but I actually liked Glasslands. Saying that, I thought Thursday War was better than Glasslands.
But is there any lore that you felt that every Halo fan HAD to know in that book? Or could I just skip it and watch the prologue terminal in Halo 4?
> > Well this is obviously your opinion but I actually liked Glasslands. Saying that, I thought Thursday War was better than Glasslands.
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> But is there any lore that you felt that every Halo fan HAD to know in that book? Or could I just skip it and watch the prologue terminal in Halo 4?
Not really. You could just look it up. The book was mostly just action on Sanghelios and since she’s not great at writing action, it wasn’t very interesting. In fact, just read Jul’s passages. He’s the only one that has direct relevance to Halo 4.
I hated glasslands as well and TTW was much worse.
> > > Well this is obviously your opinion but I actually liked Glasslands. Saying that, I thought Thursday War was better than Glasslands.
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> > But is there any lore that you felt that every Halo fan HAD to know in that book? Or could I just skip it and watch the prologue terminal in Halo 4?
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> Not really. You could just look it up. The book was mostly just action on Sanghelios and since she’s not great at writing action, it wasn’t very interesting. In fact, just read Jul’s passages. He’s the only one that has direct relevance to Halo 4.
Glad to hear that I don’t need to put myself through another Halo book by Traviss.
I’d get it. The character development of Jul Mdama is actually really interesting and probably integral to the plot of Halo 4.
I absolutely hated Glasslands, but I found Thursday War to be fairly enjoyable. It’s a bit annoying in a couple places, but overall much, much better. I’d recommend it.
I was cautiously optimistic about the thursday war, but it wasn’t that good.
I liked TTW a lot, and some plot elements/characters tie in with H4 a great deal so i’d say it would be worth reading it for that alone.
I did, however, enjoy Glasslands.
I found Glasslands slow to get into but i liked it after a few chapters.
TTW is like Matrix revolutions: there is no need to introduce the characters so she just goes straight in with the continuation of the story.
If you’ve read every halo book so far then you should read this one too it’ll eat at you otherwise…