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I criticized a couple of Halo books in the past but this was the first one that I was genuinely disappointed with. I was excited when I first started reading it; I thought it was interesting, had a lot of promise, and I could not wait to read on. But as the book advanced I became concerned as I noticed how far it had come and yet nothing significant had been addressed.

It is like the plot promised you a wonderful three course meal and then just forgot to serve them. It would not be a big problem, if the book was just the first in a series but being just a stand-alone novel, the story takes too long to setup and when it finally gets going seems like the author no longer had enough space to give the story the attention it deserved.

It runs short, as it were, with a clear need to wrap everything up that just does a disservice to the original plot; there are too many unanswered questions that the author just has to quickly wrap up, and with simply too many characters for most of them to ever develop or have a purpose in the story. Many of the characters are simply just a name on the page, with zero personality.

The book has all the necessary pieces to be a good addition to the Halo universe but somehow they they never come together, and just appear like impostors; a poorly constructed stage where the movie audience can easily see how the filmmakers cheated.