5 Star ratings can be tricky, I would have pegged this at 2.5 if I could have. Re-iterating my thoughts halfway through, I enjoyed the parts of this book that expanded the Halo universe. This book did so in a standalone way, it's events don't really impact the greater story. That's not a bad thin...
Uniqueness can be a difficult thing to find in fantasy literature, as most novels follow the general archetypes. The medieval English setting established in the Sir Thomas Malory’s classic “Le Morte d’Arthur” has been grossly overused in the genre. So it is immensely refreshing to discover a fant...
“Do you think there were people aboard those?” Cascabel asked, appearing only to Nashara. She suspected so. Cascabel nodded. “I tried to hail them, to see if I could get into their ships and spread. You?” “Destroyed before I could do anything.” The desire to multiply out into fresh, virgin lamina...
Humans, not aliens, in sleek, form-fitting suits had surrounded him. They picked him up and dragged him quickly along with them. He knew it wasn’t a hallucination when his fingers burned against the suit’s gloves as they jostled him. That was too real. Timas wanted to be grateful, but he was too ...
Roo tugged at his tux and grimaced. He’d last worn it a few years ago, and despite the weekly training, long swims, the pull-ups off the davits on the back of his boat, it still didn’t quite fit right. He wondered if anyone noticed, and then decided to shrug it off. Focusing on it would only brin...
It was a modified warrior’s crouch, one that let a Sangheili rest with his legs beneath him, but in a manner that allowed one to leap up and forward in the blink of an eye. He’d spent long hours practicing with fellow students in the sandy training courtyards of the Vadam keep, learning the pose;...
Roo jumped down a second or two later, was restrained, and then they were taken over to the patrol ship.It was a hundred-and-forty-foot-long Damen Stan hull. She recognized the old compressed, mid-hulled bridge in the center and low profile. The UNPG had a few of these in the Northwest Passage as...
This was League territory, in practicality. Technically, Octavia was neutral, another buffer area agreed on by the League and the Xenowealth. Here politicians could meet. Citizens could migrate off to other worlds. But Trumball was the League side of the neutral area. Trumball’s floating docks an...