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| Caedus_16 wrote: |
| @Mara: I'm super jealous of the books, I want to read all of those. I heard both good and glad about Glasslands so I'm waiting to hear your review. |
Okay, so this is for you, Caedus. I shall post my spoiler-free review at the moment. More to come at a later date. 
Finally finished Glasslands! Wow, that was a long book. And I'm not a fast reader. I greatly enjoyed the entire thing, but it definitely felt like it was never going to end.
I've heard some negative reviews on the books, and I can see why people may be disappointed in the amount of story squashed into these pages. Traviss seeks to cram every plotline every introduced in the Halo books and games into Glasslands alone, failing to tie up any loose ends at all. This didn't bother me in the least, but I can see where it would bother others.
Glasslands is absolutely overflowing with information. It was hard at first to remember what was going on with all of the characters, where they'd been, whose side they were on, etc. Because Traviss jumps in as if I finished Halo 3 and the Cole Protocol yesterday. Which I didn't.
There were a handful of places where her writing was very choppy, as in I couldn't figure out how the characters got from Point A to Point B, because one minute they were here, and now they're there, with no transition. The Republic Commando books never suffered from this, to my knowledge, so I'm not sure what happened.
I'll have to go into actual detail later, but overall I thought it was great. I wouldn't say her story was as captivating as those of Eric Nylund (The Fall of Reach, First Strike, and The Ghosts of Onyx), not yet. But she's definitely on the right track. Great book.
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