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  • HALO: The Flood

  • HALO, Book 2
  • Written by: William C. Dietz
  • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
  • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (258 ratings)

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HALO: The Flood

Written by: William C. Dietz
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
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The best-selling adaptation of the iconic video game Halo: Combat Evolved featuring the Master Chief - part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series!

It's 2552. Having barely escaped the final battle for Reach against the vast alien alliance known as the Covenant, the crew of the Pillar of Autumn, including Spartan John-117 - the Master Chief - and his AI companion Cortana, is forced to make a desperate escape into slipspace. But their destination brings them to an ancient mystery and an even greater struggle. In this far-flung corner of the universe floats a magnificently massive, artificial ringworld. The crew’s only hope of survival is to crash-land on its surface and take the battle opposing the Covenant to the ground.

But they soon discover that this enigmatic ringworld is much more than it seems. Built 100,00 years ago by a long-lost civilization known as the Forerunners, this “Halo” is worshiped by the Covenant - a sacred artifact they hope will complete their religious quest for supposed transcendence, and they will stop at nothing to control it. 

Engaging in fierce combat, Master Chief and Cortana will go deep into the Halo construct and uncover its dark secret and true purpose - even as a monstrous and far more vicious enemy than the Covenant emerges to threaten all sentient life on Halo and the galaxy beyond....

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great but 1 issue

great read but mjolnir was spoken wrong that is my only problem with the reader

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5/5

Buy it you'll lovely it's N N N N N N N N N amazing lol book

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  • 2023-09-01

Amazing story

Great tie in novel and it gives us so much more to what happened on the ring not just with master chief but the ODSTs too. 10/10 highly recommend please read if you have played Halo or you are a fan of the series.

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Narrator is the best!

The story is of that of the first Halo game in 2001. It was a good and interesting story on Xbox, and it's even more fleshed out here. It has a few extra subplots, and explains what happens to a few characters while Master Chief is fighting the Covenant and the Flood. I want to praise the narrator's performance, he did phenomenal work. He really brought the story to life and had great acting skills. I am actually going to buy another audiobook based solely on the fact that he narrated it.

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Halo doesn't disappoint

well enjoyed. from the story to the narrator. well done.
only bad part is when it ends. must be on to the next in the series. "Audible" for when you want to binge on books :)

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A gamers perspective.

I've read the book multiple times and played the game for the past 20 years. An excellent read. Voice acting was mostly very well done however his performance of Cortana was a little too soft and lacked confidence. If I hadn't played the game I probably would've given 5 Stars. Very enjoyable indeed.

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Best, Most Classic Halo Book

If you are looking for a book on the classic original Halo game, this is for you! Feel what it was like for Keyes to lose his mind, à parallel story on a commando elite who wants to see the master chief killed, and how even the Flood can make the Master Chief shiver...

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well woven

yayapp (grunt) and his elite buddy are the best part. fighting feels stale by now.

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Great sequel.

Book 2 is a perfect expansion of Halo lore. It perfectly captures my nostalgia for Halo: Combat Evolved while expanding on the lore in a brilliant detailed way. The introduction of The Flood as a species is done from multiple perspectives in excellent fashion. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has either read the first book or played through the video game series.

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Amazing story, well spoken

I enjoyed this second reading in the Hall series much more than the first. although both are good, the voice acting is this has much more effort put into it, while the reader seems to understand 'how' characters are supposed to sound. and nails the tone of voice on them. very few strange pronunciations as well. only issue are a few plot holes that I noticed throughout.

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  • 2020-03-09

Great book, narration is unnecessarily bad

I love this book. I listen to it non-stop for as long as I can. The issue I have is with the narration. Todd McLaren has a great voice, but some of the things he does incorrectly are such easy fixes that it screams laziness. This guy mispronounces EVERYTHING. How has no one told him how to pronounce words? It’s so infuriating to hear him butcher words that are so important like Mjolnir. Stuff that he should know like how it’s spartan ONE ONE SEVEN instead of one seventeen. If anyone who has played the game listened to his narration before it was released, every single problem could be fixed. That’s all it would have taken, one slightly competent reviewer to give some feedback.

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  • marcos andrade
  • 2020-04-08

The worst in the original Novels

This book fails to capture the imagination. It tries to be a direct copy of the events of the game while interjecting it’s own narratives to fill in the gap. The book does both of these things poorly in my opinion. Most of the original novels were Eric Nylund. This one was not. The writing was very sub par. It felt very scripted and didn’t explore very interesting Paths at any point. The fall of reach, first strike, contact harvest, and even the cole protocol were better than this book. Simply put, it’s wasted potential and boring. I would not recommend.

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  • Skylar
  • 2019-03-12

I found this book to be an amazing story

I loved the story. The narration of it was great and had me cought to every word. I personally enjoyed this story very much and would gladly sit and listen to it again

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 2020-11-06

Repetitive and poor portrayal of characters

I didn’t like the dialogue of Master Chief. Swearing and chatty. Very uncharacteristic of the Chief.

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  • Stephen
  • 2019-06-11

battle battle battle battle

captain keys watching game then hearing story is fulfilling but so much battle no food sleep poop breaks

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  • Jacob Showers
  • 2021-01-07

a fantastic book, but the voice actor sold it

The voice actor in this book was single-handedly brilliant. Each character could be told apart, he added proper inflection and sounded genuine. Absolutely fantastic, 10/10 give it a listen mate.

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  • Joe Howard
  • 2021-03-21

Literallyvisualize the entire Halo CE campaign

Overall very good, slightly annoying that the reader still doesn't pronounce Mjolnir correctly but outside of that, very good read and very good acting with the voices. Definitely a must read for any Halo fan looking to see where the game started. also recommend listening to the first book for lore on Master Chief.

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  • Curtis S.
  • 2020-02-10

meh

while not as good as it's predecessor, it's entertaining enough I guess. certain plot points from the game are just completely boring, whereas the innovative narratives, such as that of the alien perspectives that go on their own missions, or the surviving humans fight to control their base, are much more enthralling. overall, the performance by the narrator is on par with the same as last time, although I wish he would pronounce 'rations' and 'Mjolnir' correctly.

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  • Arsene Dragon
  • 2019-12-17

never thought I would feel bad for the flood

rest in peace Jenkins. for your extreme valour in character and will, you will be remembered

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  • Nicholas
  • 2019-10-23

magnificent! !

I love this whole series! I have always loved the games but now I can gladly say the books are great as well!

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