The Cole Protocol (Halo) by Tobias S. Buckell
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Book Reviews of The Cole Protocol (Halo)
Book Review: A fun read.
Summary: 3 Stars
The book was fine, just seemed like a bit too much going on and so there wasn't a lot of focus and character development. It is a decent addition to the series as far as the story goes but definitely not as good as the first 3.Book Review: Bad writing :(
Summary: 2 Stars
There are some problems with this novel.
Here's a list:
- Action redundancy
Every character in this novel will bite their lip at least once and at totally inappropriate times (like when angry).
- Teleporting
Scenes often teleport to locations that are woefully under-described. You'll be reading about an event in one room and then the next event will take place in another room without much transition, if any.
- Poor Multitasking
Trying to cover three perspectives at once is a bad idea. What's worse is covering all three at the same time by switching perspectives each chapter.
- Poor Structure
Chapters (seriously) can last only three to four pages. For reference, the book is 300 something pages long and it contains 70+ chapters.
- Treated like an epic
This book comes in chapters and parts. From my experience, Parts are reserved for longer more epic books. Proper use of Chapters would have gotten rid of parts all together.
- Poor scene description
- Poor character development
- Cliche ridden
Over all, pretty bad. I'll finish reading it, but it won't be on par with the other Halo books (not that they were shining gems of literary skill either).
Book Review: Wish Eric Nylund would write all the Halo books!!
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a decent storyline especially where they placed it in the overall chronology. I personally feel that Tobias Buckell needs to keep to writing other things. His writing is choppy short snipplets, without ever going too deep into any one aspect of the story at any given time. Felt like a rock skipping over the water trying to watch a full-length movie being played under the surface! By the time you're to the other side you basically have an idea what you read and you think you might have actually enjoyed it...but your not sure!! Probably the worst experience of all the Halo books. Especially since I love this storyline and we wait about a year for each story to be written...then you finish it going..."that's it?", "That's what I waited for??"
Pretty sad overall!!
Book Review: Worst of the series
Summary: 1 Stars
This book is awful. The writer utterly fails to establish any character or plot thread that provides any motivation to keep reading after the first page. None of the characters have any charm, there is no mystery or suspense to the story, and there's no expansion or exploration of the Halo universe.
This is a book without inspiration. Avoid it.
Book Review: Halo Brand at risk...
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a big fan of halo and I have read the previous books in the series.
This one is just bad - poorly written, weak character development both of humans and aliens, and a weak plot line.
Microsoft needs to be more careful and protect the halo brand.