Halo: Shadows of Reach

Troy Denning

Oct 2020 · Halo Book 27 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins

About this audiobook

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A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!

October 2559. It has been a year since the renegade artificial intelligence Cortana issued a galaxy-wide ultimatum, subjecting many worlds to martial law under the indomitable grip of her Forerunner weapons. Outside her view, the members of Blue Team—John-117, the Master Chief; Fred-104; Kelly-087; and Linda-058—are assigned from the UNSC Infinity to make a covert insertion onto the ravaged planet Reach.

Their former home and training ground—and the site of humanity’s most cataclysmic military defeat near the end of the Covenant War—Reach still hides myriad secrets after all these years. Blue Team’s mission is to penetrate the rubble-filled depths of CASTLE Base and recover top-secret assets locked away in Dr. Catherine Halsey’s abandoned laboratory—assets which may prove to be humanity’s last hope against Cortana.

But Reach has been invaded by a powerful and ruthless alien faction, who have their own reasons for being there. Establishing themselves as a vicious occupying force on the devastated planet, this enemy will soon transform Blue Team’s simple retrieval operation into a full-blown crisis. And with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, mission failure is not an option…

Ratings and reviews

Much like other books post Kilofive trilogy, this is yet another disappointing halo book. without giving anything away, the story constantly teases and almost feels centred on an crucial object that is used as bait to drag the reader/listener through hours of quite unimaginative and generic action and feels a lot like a method to advertise new halo toys and other merch. I could criticise this book for far longer but i rather not and just tell you that if you're a fan of Fall of reach or first st

This book is terrible and fails on every level. My least favorite of all the halo novels. Nothing important happens and the end is a letdown. Narration is awful. The whole story is generic and uneventful. I will never listen to another novel by this author... and this is my second.

I'm glad Scott Brick isn't narrating. the book is fine, much like Dennings other books they are just fine. they would be much better if he was not constantly retconning the entirety of all the other Halo books though

About the author

Troy Denning is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty novels, including Halo: Divine Wind, Halo: Shadows of Reach, Halo: Oblivion, Halo: Silent Storm, Halo: Retribution, Halo: Last Light, a dozen Star Wars novels, the Dark Sun: Prism Pentad series, and many bestselling Forgotten Realms novels. A former game designer and editor, he lives in western Wisconsin.