Halo: The Flood

by William C. Dietz

mass market paperback, 352 pages

English language

Published Oct. 12, 2010 by Del Rey Books, Tor Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-45921-3

(8 reviews)

Halo: The Flood is set in the year 2552. Humanity has colonized hundreds of worlds across the galaxy, using faster-than-light drives and cryonic sleep to travel between worlds. Without warning, a collective of alien races known as the Covenant began attacking the outlying colonies, brutally exterminating all life by vitrifying the surface of the planets. Humanity, outnumbered and outclassed by the alien's superior technology, wages a losing war against the enemy. After the human bastion of Reach falls to the Covenant, the human ship Pillar of Autumn jumps into Slipspace to lead the Covenant away from Earth.

2 editions

theRealBassist reviewed Halo: The Flood by William C. Dietz (Halo: The Original Series, #2)

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3 stars

I want to rate this 3.5 stars to be honest. It's not a bad book by any stretch. However, it is literally just the plotline to Halo: Combat Evolved with a B-plot which is... fine.

I think my biggest complaint is that it fails to carry on a lot of little details and plotlines from the first book in the series. The third book, thankfully, picks them back up and does them justice. However, the failure to connect strongly with the stories created by Eric Nylund just leaves this book feeling disjointed when reading them together.

Overall, it was a good read on its own, but fails to contribute strongly to the series.