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| Initial impressions *vague spoilers* | |
| Posted By: Leviathan <levihoff@yahoo.com> | Date: 11/23/09 8:17 p.m. |
In Response To: Don't forget Halo Evolutions tomorrow!!! (GrimBrother One) The following is perhaps helpful if you're on the fence of buying this book... or you just like getting excited for something you've already bought. After a nice forward from Frankie, Halo Evolutions began with a great start: a creative illustration and a stirring poem, really setting the book off to a mature, serious-minded tone as well as foreshadowing the breadth of the stories to come. 'These won't be just some filler, forgetable stories to get my Halo fix - they'll be good stories too!' were my thoughts. And I wasn't let down with the first short story, which was a lengthy short story at that (sometimes short stories seem to suffer from providing only a glimpse of characters, or often feel like the length has slighted the presentation and pacing - but this isn't the case here). It delved into sincere emotional and psychological affects of the universe, concepts relating to some of the discussions I've seen in these forums, but only really hinted at in the fiction like in Fall of Reach. And the story came with plenty of nostalgia, connecting to older fiction and really feeling already a part of the universe as opposed to something injected into it. I didn't notice any canon inconsistencies, though I did notice one typo, 'USNC' (pg 46), but it's not like I didn't know what that was supposed to be. :) But what really impressed me is that this first story is not the kind of story I expected from the book, especially to start it off. It's themes are serious and response-inciting, it was even sometimes depressing, and relatable to real-life situations - and all this really makes the book feel respectful to what Halo can be. It just threw me off, and it makes me very excited for the rest because it seems they're taking advantage of the potential of the universe.
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