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When you think of Halo, understandable the first thing that comes into your head are the games, whether it’s the original trilogy, ODST, Reach or even the often forgotten about Halo Wars RTS game. However what you don’t immediately think about is the series of books that have been written to accompany the Halo canon.
I recently stumbled across one of these books whilst nosing around in WH Smiths. It was titled ‘The Fall of Reach’ and according to the back of the book it followed the life of the SPARTAN known as Master Chief, you may have heard of him, up until the beginning of the first game. Now I’m not a massive Halo fan, I brought the first one for the PC before Bungie were swallowed whole by Microsoft. I didn’t play the second one due to not owning an original Xbox, I thought the third was OK, I thought ODST was a bit meh, and I’ve not played Reach yet, but I was immediately drawn to the book so I brought it. I later learned that there are a whole series of books that have been published since this one but I hadn’t about of any of them before. Read the rest of this entry »