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 Maybe that's why Joseph Staten is back at Microsoft. The official news suggests - to me, at least - that he's working on ''Halo'', just not ''directly'' on the next game. I doubt he'd leave ''Destiny'' in the middle of production unless he's working on something really worthwhile for MS. If you're reading this, Mr. Staten, I'd really like another Avery Johnson novel. ''Pretty please''. --[[User:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">'''''Our vengeance is at hand.'''''</span>]] [[File:Gravemind.svg|14px]] ([[User talk:Braidenvl|<span style="color:gray">Talk to me.</span>]]) 00:40, 27 January 2014 (EST)
+I can't really comment on this novel, since I haven't read it (and can't afford it for a while), but I can already tell that the Halsey-bashing is going to annoy me. I didn't mind most of the rest of the other books - I liked her original characters, even Osman, and I've started to come around to the idea that Parangosky's hypocrisy was deliberate - that we're meant to be outraged at it, and to think that they're just as bad as each other. Because that's what I'm left with.
+But what really still irks me is that she gives (or gave, at least) no time to Halsey's perspective, and didn't care to. I've never thought she was squeaky clean - Nylunds books paint her as a monster, but one who knows she's a monster. She has always known that what she did would send her to hell, if she believed in it. She spent so much of Fall of Reach and First Strike ''rationalising'' it to herself, but she knew it was all full of shit. It's something she's ''regretted''. I loved Halsey ''because'' she was a bitch and knew it, and that just went unacknowledged. It's as if Traviss never even took the time to read the Nylund books, and I'm nearly convinced that this is true, since she herself has commented that she doesn't like doing that kind of research when she writes. And really, that's the core of my dislike (not hatred, but certainly no love lost) of Traviss as an author - she just doesn't care about what she's writing about beyond her own little corner of it. And that's okay for an original series, but when you come into a franchise, you need that context so things don't seem jarring - which was what the sudden turning of everyone around Halsey seemed like.
+Also, now that a plot summary is up, I have to say...what changes? I don't mean with the characters, because I'm sure that part is done well. But I mean with the status quo between Earth, Venezia, and the former Covenant. The first K5 book set up the Covenant's resurgence, and Thursday War continued that and set up Jul 'Mdama to take it over. And we got our glimpse of Venezia, with hints that it could change the balance of power. But by the end, from everything I've read, things end up exactly in the same state, frozen. Does the Venezia threat get neutralised, set up as a point of contention between humanity and Covenant, or stirred up like a kicked hornets nest? Maybe this is just something that was lost in translation from novel to summary. Or maybe I just need to read it again. -- [[User:Morhek|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 03:21, 27 January 2014 (EST)