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HALO: The Fall of Reach

HALO, Book 1

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HALO: The Fall of Reach

By: Eric Nylund
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
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The New York Times best-selling origin story of the Master Chief - part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!

The 26th century. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth’s system to hundreds of planets that colonists now call home. But the United Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command is struggling to control this vast empire. After exhausting all strategies to keep seething colonial insurrections from exploding into a full-blown interplanetary civil war, the UNSC has one last hope. At the Office of Naval Intelligence, Dr. Catherine Halsey has been hard at work on a top-secret program that could bring an end to the conflict...and it starts with 75 children, among them a six-year-old boy named John. And Halsey could never guess that this child will eventually become the final hope against an even greater peril engulfing the galaxy - the inexorable confrontation with a theocratic military alliance of alien races known as the Covenant.

This is the electrifying origin story of Spartan John-117 - the Master Chief - and of his legendary, unstoppable heroism in leading the resistance against humanity’s possible extinction.

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Adventure Genre Fiction Military Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction
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Rich Backstory • Detailed Training • Distinctive Character Voices • Compelling Origin • Immersive Worldbuilding
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Over a great origin story. It is annoying the narration is not great. If you can get past that you will enjoy the story.

Overall a great story.

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Well-told with some egregiously-mispronounced words. Mjolnir and inexorable being the worst. The story is good though, just problems with narration.

MUH JOL NIR

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The only thing wrong is the pronunciation of Mjolnir. Very descriptive detail. Puts your imagination right into the action.

Prefect

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I loved it and have started to recommend it to all my friends.
The readers voice was great and his voice for the diffrent characters stayed true thought the story. I love the halo universe and this book opened my eyes to it so much more.

first audio book ever! <3

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This is so good. I can't wait until the whole story unfolds! Looking Forward

Wow. Good time!

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I love the story, but it does not seem the narrator has any experience with the Halo universe. He mispronounces “ Mjolnir”, which is a common word in this book.

*Minor Spoiler*
During Captain Keyes time on the Iroquois, the narrator repeatedly said the year 2542, when it was in fact 2552.

Immersive story with a less than stellar narrator

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They pronounce "Mjolnir" with a hard "j". The "Halo Canon" youtube channel has a good explanation of how this book fits in with the Halo: Reach video game (spoilers: barely, if at all). Otherwise, good stuff.

They pronounce "Mjolnir" with a hard "j".

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Todd said "majolnir" for the whole story and nobody bothered to correct it. Other than that, perfect. great story and Todd's inflection brought the laconic, gritty characters to life.

one minor complaint for the execution

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narrator did a really good job. kept me hooked all the way through. good job todd.

wow I like

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great story
but pissed me off when the narrator pronounced Mjolnir wrong everytime. But good

stories good, but narrator could've done better

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