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Not Demings Best Work, no action and Unlikeable characters

Reviewed: 08-22-23

Too much talking and not enough action. Plus it’s filled with characters no one likes.

In general I’ve never found Halos politics very entertaining or appealing . The covenant kill 80 Billjon humans over a 30 year war and Denning always using human terrorists characters that hate the UNSC more than the covenant just seems ridiculous….

The characters from the oblivion timeline are also unlikeable. The Rosa character hates the UNSC but they essentially saved her family and rescuers them from being marooned on Netherop and healed her. Spartan Vail and Team Osiris in General from Halo 5 are unlikeable and it’s laughable that a group of child soldiers could hold off a group of Sanghelli Rangers and Fully trained Banished brutes after those brutes wiped out a battalion of ODSTs.

The scientists was especially annoying and neve seemed to care she got hundreds killed , and while I did like Thel Vadam and Atriox, Denning kind of wasted two great characters by spending so much time talking about boring characters No one has ever liked.

Not Dennings Best work and the oblivion storyline in general is forgettable

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Simple, Effective and Powerful

Reviewed: 07-05-23

This book is Simple, Effective and Powerful and it’s applicable to literally everyone

Those who decide to remain stuck in the past and who refuse to change , and who “wish things were the way they used to be” will be brutally Ran over and forgotten.

Those who instead decide to roll with the punches and change with the times will be ok, and the rarest of those of us who foresee where things are going and prepare their lives for the inevitable change will be the ones that will be truly successful and reap the lion share of success in life.

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Amazing Still the best book in the series

Reviewed: 07-03-23

Amazing Still the best book in the series and my favorite sci Fi series and video game Franchise in the world

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Phenomenal Book, Arguably the best one In the series

Reviewed: 05-30-23

I was shocked at how good this book was as I wasn’t that impressed with Kellie Gays other Halo Books.

I personally have never found halos politics to be very interesting or believable…… When Authors or a useless a TV show , try to portray the UNSC as an evil authoritarian empire , the Spartans as only slightly tougher than an ODST, and they paint the narrative that humanity and the covenant can just Shake hands and forgive each other after the covenant slaughters 90 Billion humans over a 35+ year war, it borders on the asinine.

This book , The Rubicon Protocol , gets back to what makes Halo great…. What made books like the Fall of Reach , and the video games like ODST and Halo : Reach great , the Covenant in this book are violently brutal, as a reader you literally hate and fear them as they brutally slaughter and butcher the human marines and Spartans and the Rubicon Protocol gets back to portraying the Spartans as the Demi-God Badasses that Eric Nylunds Fall of Reach and the Video Games portrayed them to be.

Damn good book, the action is violent, the enemy is terrifying, evil and hated and you almost cry and mourn as your heroes go down. Damn good book indeed and well done as this might be the best book in the series.

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Phenomenal Read

Reviewed: 04-20-23

In a world full of participation trophies, and ppl think being mediocre or barely below average something to shoot for, you have those rare breed of outliers who want to be good at what they do, and that rarer breed who want to be absolutely GREAT at what they do.

Goggins is that rarest of rare breed

If you’ve never been comfortable with being average or mediocre , and want to be great at what you do you quickly realize how lonely it is, how many soft ppl you offend and how angry you will make your class mates , coworkers and family members, but like Goggins , if you do decide to be great in all facets of your life, you will be absolutely blown away with the physical, mental , spiritual and financial amazements that come your way

Utterly amazing read , one of the best books I’ve ever read !

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Phenomenal read for any person of color

Reviewed: 11-09-22

Corporate America was never designed for black and brown Americans , if anything the entire premise of it was for us to get a degree, work very hard and never make it to the C-Suite

Well times are thankfully changing (glacially slow) and this book is the best book I have ever read on systematically walking Black and Brown people on how to learn the game, Play the game, dominate the game and ultimately go create you own game in regards to corporate America .

I knew Randall was something special on the 2004 Apprentice finale and watching Donald Trump try to sabotage him on national TV,, and it’s been amazing reading this book and learning from such a great entrepreneur and professional about how I dominate corporate America and go out and start your own business that dominates corporate America

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Written by a privileged white guy who gives some ok advice

Reviewed: 06-24-22

An ok financial book written by a very privileged white guy who doesn’t have the senses to acknowledge the generational privilege his white skin has afforded him and his family.

I did find the chapters tho about how Hollywood loves Demonizing “Rich Greedy Businessman” as well as the 10Th Commandment about Jews abhorring Retirement to be fascinating.

But he loses any credibility when he alludes to poor ppl In cities who don’t want to work being on welfare, when studies clearly show that the largest percentage of ppl on welfare are in rural Midwestern and Southern states. Just like he conveniently glosses over the fact that many of the business owners he references in this book, pay less taxes than the secretaries who work for them.

Overall an Ok read however and like many things, listen to something’s and ignore everything else

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Amazing novel … tragic and powerful

Reviewed: 12-15-21

Troy Denning is one of the better Halo Authors and this is one of his better books

Tragic and sad, but very very good as Vada Lopez and her ferret team goes to the Arc to fight the Ancilla. You get a renewed sense of hatred for the Prophets / San Sha-oun, tragedy strikes the ferret team and you also surprisingly feel a little sad for the Jirilhanae Castor.

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Good book. Terrible dead pan reading

Reviewed: 12-12-21

Good story but the performance from the reader was terrible

Scott Brick is the ONLY author who should be allowed to read a Troy Denning book.

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Good book

Reviewed: 12-06-21

Troy Denning is one of the better authors in Halo but i can’t stand the way they romanticize the insurrectionists Terrorists traitors.

Those traitors remind me of a bunch of Alt Right , white Privileged dirtbags who use Medicare and Medicaid, go to govt paid free public schools , hop on free Govt paved roads , and then want to complain about the govt./ UNSC

Good book but they should have marooned the insurrectionists terrorists instead of marooning the ONI girl

As always Troy Demings on the ground action battles are beautifully written and violent

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