Halo: New Blood Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Matt Forbeck ID: B00U2OBA9E
The New York Times best-selling series based on the blockbuster Xbox® games! While Spartans get all the glory, no soldier – not even the legendary Master Chief – wins a war on his own. Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck and his team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODSTs) played a major role in saving the Earth from all-out invasion at the end of the Covenant War – acts of bravery and ingenuity that did not go unnoticed by the United Nations Space Command. Now, after many Spartans have been killed in battle, and the Master Chief is listed as MIA, the UNSC decides to create a new generation of Spartans to defend humanity from threats both outside and within. When they come to Buck with an extraordinary proposition, he is forced to make a life-altering decision. With the Covenant War finally over, is it time for him finally to retire to the sidelines for a life he could only dream about…or is he prepared to step up and become part of the military’s new blood?
Done.
Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 6 hours and 12 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Simon & Schuster Audio / Halo BooksAudible.com Release Date: March 2, 2015Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B00U2OBA9E Best Sellers Rank: #73 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Science Fiction > Adventure #232 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Military #366 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Science Fiction
Halo: New Blood. A short story intended to… Well… I’m actually not entirely certain of its purpose. It continues the story of Alpha Nine, the ODST Squad from the video game Halo 3:ODST, obviously, but it doesn’t feel like simple fanservice. It takes bold steps with those characters’ personal journeys and/or fates, the type very likely to alienate devoted fans who adore these characters and have been involved in their experiences in-game. I won’t spoil anything, but I will say that the steps taken with the Rookie and Mickey are easily the most extreme.
The narrative structure here is written in the first person, from the perspective of Edward Buck, a former Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. He recounts his journey to joining the Spartan-IV program, making stops throughout his life to highlight what he sees as key moments and experiences. Avoiding spoilers, these sections are rather variable; some feel slightly irrelevant while others are extremely important storywise, and one extended section is more or less a straightforward rehash of ODST’s campaign, similar to the novel "Halo: The Flood" by William Dietz. The narrative frequently feels jumbled, there are some severe issues with the "stories within stories within stories" structure that the book follows, as I frequently found myself losing track of where I was at in Buck’s story timewise.
However, the fact remains that the characters here are excellently portrayed, considering the limitations the novel’s length imposes as a matter of necessity. Many emotional and tense moments are engagingly written, the plot never spirals into overly slow sections, and most importantly of all, the Spartan-IVs are humanized far better than Halo 4, Spartan Ops, and the entirety of Halo Escalations ever managed.
So this came out today (yesterday? sheesh time flies) and i read it. The story is narrated by former Gunnery Sergeant Buck from the game Halo: ODST and tells various tales from his past as well as some things that may lead into the events of Halo 5. One of those things that we haven’t really heard about yet is the creation of spartan IVs which I was excited to read about. The rest of it however was a mystery to me.
As I mentioned it’s told from the perspective of Buck in first person, I was disappointed to learn that there’s no audiobook narrated by Nathan Fillion out right now which is something that desperately needs to happen.
Otherwise is was a pretty good read, I had fun reading it in Fillions voice in my head. I’m not sure how much of it ties directly in to anything that could possibly be in Halo 5. I think the important bits from it are that Spartan Jun is a member of the spartan program and one of their recruiters. Its plot dealt heavily with the entity known as the United Rebel Front, a human faction that opposes the UNSC, which leads me to believe that we might have human opponents in Halo 5. Spartan IV’s will obviously be major characters in Halo 5. I don’t think we’ll see Buck in Halo 5 but hey who knows.
The other parts of the story deal heavily with Bucks life and the events of Halo: ODST. Buck talks about how he got into his fling with Veronica Dare, and remarks about her throughout the story providing it with a fun to read romance aspect. He talks about what happened to your player character “The Rookie” in ODST and the rest of his squad. If you’re a fan of ODST this is an easy pickup.
Overall I was very satisfied with New Blood.
Halo is the franchise that turned me into a hardcore gamer, and Eric Nylund’s Halo novels are a very large part of what turned me into an avid reader (sorry Harry Potter). They added depth and character to a universe I already loved, and told stories that were just as exciting as the video games they bridged together.
Which makes me wonder, why wasn’t THIS book the official bridge between Halo 3 and Halo 4? Karen Traviss’s Kilo Five trilogy may have much more substantial links to Halo 4 as far as direct backstory is concerned, but Halo: New Blood does an infinitely better job of setting up the new state of the galaxy in general, and the Spartan-IV program specifically. Halo: New Blood actually FEELS like Halo, and not a sluggish and boring political science thesis like the Kilo Five trilogy did.
New Blood also does an excellent job of expanding on the character of Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, the fan-favorite ODST played by Nathan Fillion in the games. Not only do we find out what he and the rest of the characters of Halo 3: ODST have been doing since that game, we also get to see his entire backstory with glimpses of his childhood, early career as an ODST (Orbital Drop Shock Trooper), and how he first met ONI Captain Veronica Dare. And perhaps the best aspect of this is that Matt Forbeck manages to capture the character of Buck so well that I actually found myself reading this book in Nathan Fillion’s voice inside my head. To my knowledge, this is the first Halo novel that has been written in first-person, and using a major game character as that narrator on top of it.
This first-person perspective makes it much easier to handle the fact that this novel does not tell a linear narrative.
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