Contact Harvest (Halo) by Joseph Staten
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Book Reviews of Contact Harvest (Halo)
Book Review: Contact Harvest
Summary: 5 Stars
The book was written very well. It's a great compliment to the Halo series. I hope there will be more to read in the future.Book Review: pleased with the book
Summary: 5 Stars
My son is pleased with the Halo book. Shipping seemed to take awhile, but other than that we are pleased overallBook 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: positively EPIC!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great novel in a great series. A must for any Halo fan.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.