Hey guys, I’m going on Holidays for a week and I have both of these books. To anyone who has read them, which one should I read first?
I want to read Last Light for Blue Team. But Hunters in the Dark seems interesting because of Vale. Just want opinions on which one you guys liked more.
Read Last Light first. It is the better novel and has more interesting characters (you get to see a lot of Fred and the Spartan III’s). Hunters in the Dark is kind of a mediocre story and Vale is barely in it.
“Last Light” was better in my opinion, it has a detective side to it (even if somebody with half a brain can realize who the killer is in the third chapter, it is still filled with some neat plot elements). As said above, it has a lot of development for Fred-104 and the remaining S-IIIs (Ash, Mark, Lucy, Tom, Olivia).
“Hunters in The Dark” is unimportant for the story, it is only used mainly to introduce Olimpia Vale… This book is closer to being guided tour of what is left of the Ark, rather than a proper novel.
If you’ve read Halo: Ghosts of Onyx already, read Halo: Last Light. If you haven’t, read Halo: Hunters in the Dark. You need to read the Nylund novels to properly grasp what’s going on. Also looking into the Kilo-Five Trilogy (either read them or Halopedia. The later will save you some time and brain cells) is a good idea as well.
Now Hunters in the Dark itself however is a standalone novel. You can pretty much read it at any point and still gather what’s going on.
Now as to why I say read Last Light first, I consider Hunters in the Dark to be a bore and in the end a waste of time, to put it bluntly (maybe I’m being a bit too extreme). The major plot point of the story was handled terribly (I’ve mentioned before in another thread that 343 needs to work on handling galaxy spanning plots, Hunters in the Dark being an example), it’s basically a situation (I won’t get into spoilers) where the galaxy might go boom in the year 2555 (yeah, because I’m suuure the UNSC is doing terribly in Halo 4/Escalation/Nightfall/etc.). A final thing to note is that the major plot point greatly took away and rushed through the more interesting bits of the novel. The ending also felt like “that’s it?” Last Light however, was an amazing read. It’s more of a smaller scale story with none of that galaxy ending bull- and it explores and expands upon many interesting aspects of the lore, despite being a smaller in scale compared to Hunters in the Dark. It also has a similar feeling to the Nylund novels (and you should know how well regarded he is around the community) while also having its own feeling as well. Troy Dennign did an amazing job. This was a novel I wasn’t exactly looking forward to, due to something cataloge had posted in the past and the description of the novel. But the novel was an amazing surprise.
TL;DR read Last Light first.
Both novels are good, but I would read Last light first due to it being set before Hunters in the Dark.
Yeah I’ve been reading last light first. It’s good, but in terms of canon aren’t I supposed to read Glasslands after Onyx?
ive read Glasslands and Thursday war, but missed ghosts of onyx
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> Yeah I’ve been reading last light first. It’s good, but in terms of canon aren’t I supposed to read Glasslands after Onyx?
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> ive read Glasslands and Thursday war, but missed ghosts of onyx
Yes, Ghost of Onyx explains how Halsey, Mendez and the Spartans ended up inside the shield world Trevelyan.
And Last Light is set after Mortal Dictata, which follows directly after Thursday War, and personaly I find it the best of the 3 Travis novels.
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> Yeah I’ve been reading last light first. It’s good, but in terms of canon aren’t I supposed to read Glasslands after Onyx?
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> ive read Glasslands and Thursday war, but missed ghosts of onyx
Yikes, if you haven’t read Ghosts of Onyx, drop everything and read that first. 
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> “Last Light” was better in my opinion, it has a detective side to it (even if somebody with half a brain can realize who the killer is in the third chapter, it is still filled with some neat plot elements).
And if you tell a new reader which chapter they can figure it out in, you’re not really helping the matter.
I liked Hunters in the Dark better, but that is only because it features my favorite playable characters from Halo 3. Good old Arby (We have the meats), that random dinosaur (N’tho Sraom), and Barney (Usze Taham). Those are what my friends and I call them anyway.
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> > “Last Light” was better in my opinion, it has a detective side to it (even if somebody with half a brain can realize who the killer is in the third chapter, it is still filled with some neat plot elements).
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> And if you tell a new reader which chapter they can figure it out in, you’re not really helping the matter.
It is insultingly obvious even before that.
Besides, what I said doesn’t spoil it any way, not with such an amount of characters in the whole book