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Halo: Battle Born
- Narrated by: Ryan Do, Caitlin Kelly, Lee Osorio, Angel Pean
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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- jess smothers
- 04-01-24
Story was great
Enjoyed the story. But too many people narrating. if you have women narrator but still have men doing women’s voices pulls you out of the story at times.
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- Gavin
- 05-04-24
A short story from another book
This is a more fleshed out short story from another book, disappointing that it’s full price or that they didn’t add more content.
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- Logan
- 04-10-24
Too "Highschool" for Ehat I Want in Halo
Overall the story felt like a fairly standard attempt at the "Alien Invasion" trope, flavored with Halo. I did feel like the Covenant threat did not feel like a huge "threat" for most of the story, even when the more interesting parts of the story (final 2.5 hours) occurred. We have a case where, although the protagonists are often described as just high school kids with some technical skills that I could reasonably accept, they manage to pull off several stealth and combat encounters without much loss or failure... against an apparently low-discipline, not very combat efficient Covenant occupation force. Had to dial up the suspension of disbelief beyond my preferred level for this book.
The narrators were all fine, though there was inconsistency in some of the pronunciation such as "Salomé" and some awkward splicing of Saskia's name later in the story where I guess some audio issues occurred and were patched. Nothing I'd really drop a star for; mainly I just feel like I'd have preferred a single narrator than four unique ones for this story. Just my personal take.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-02-24
Everything
I like the story, it gave me what the civilian point of view is within the halo universe instead of a brass spartans and odsts.
Secondly, the story was amazing and that it gave me a RED DAWN vibe.
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Love me some Halo
pretty good read. I am ready for the next book. Can't wait to see what will be found and what will happen
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- Analee
- 05-16-24
Great story, monotone audio
The story gave us a civilian perspective and emotions of an invasion which was great. The characters were well written as well. Unfortunately 3/4 of the voices were very monotone which reduced the enjoyment of the story.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-27-24
Voice Acting and Audio Quality were peak. Dorian's voice especially was good.
The story in itself was good. All five main characters were memorable and all five had good subplots save maybe Victor. But this story is very "Highschoolly" for Halo. Way too PG, way too light hearted. I'm not saying kill any of the main cast or traumatize them. I actually think that would be a mistake. But they have a lot of plot armor for a bunch of kids with a handful of useful skills. In the older books, authors casually killed off Spartans and whole platoons of marines to emphasize how brutal and unforgiving war is. Halo is not a light hearted universe or at all safe for normal people. It's very very jarring for these characters to do what they do in this universe. Otherwise, great read. I actually expect the follow up book to basically be better in every way because it won't have this book's problem hopefully!
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- Christopher Hunter
- 04-29-24
Disappointed
Not like the rest of what I have read before in this series of books
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- Nikolei R
- 08-18-24
Not a halo book
Pretty boring story. Feels more like a teen drama than a halo book. Wouldn’t recommend
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- Jay
- 05-21-24
I gave it two stars, but even that is a stretch
The writing is ridiculously overly descriptive. The content seems like it was written for teens. One of the 3 narrators is extremely monotone and terrible. Please dont ever let that girl narrate anything ever again.
Most of the story is laying background and character building. Roughly 1/3 of the content is a "halo" story and most of that is a few children showing more competency in combat then trained UNSC ODST's. At one point a teen snipes a covenant sniper with a plasma pistol.
Not sure this writer has enough familiarity with HALO to write a HALO story. The names of the chapters are a pretty good indicatior to the competency of the writer.
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