Author: Eric Nylund Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2006 Rating: 3/5 stars Amazon Price: $9.88 Bottom Line If the reader is familiar with Halo: Reach the game, he or she may be aware that Noble team consisted of SPARTAN-IIIs. If the gamer hasn’t read any of the Halo books, this may be confusing to him. Suddenly, out of…
Author: Matt Forbeck Publisher: Gallery Books, 2015 Rating: 5/5 stars Amazon Price: $9.68 Bottom Line All Halo fans are familiar with Gunnery Sergeant Buck from Halo 3: ODST as well as Halo 5. Yet in Halo 5, it was a shock to us all to see Buck as a SPARTAN-IV. How did he get recruited into the new SPARTAN-IV programme? Well, Buck tells us that…
Author: Various authors Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2009 Rating: 5/5 stars Amazon Price: $11.39 Bottom Line Halo Evolutions is a collection of 11 short stories that gives the reader further insight into the Halo lore. Each story is highly well written and each ends in a way that the reader does not expect, or even desire. When reading a…
This article has been modified to fit the audience of this blog from an essay written for the philosophy course, Christian Apologetics, at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Authors: Gary R. Habermas and Michael R. Licona Publisher: Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2004 Rating: 5/5 stars Amazon Price: $17.81 Bottom Line In discussions of the resurrection of Christ,…
Author: Rev. A Trevor Sutton Publisher: St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2016 Rating: 5/5 stars CPH Price: $11.99 Bottom Line Every Christian needs to read this book. Why? To quote from Rev. Dr. Patrick Ferry in the foreword, “Absolute truth is a concept inherent to the Christian faith but not much in step with the relativist worldview that is…
Author: Lynn Austin Publisher: Bethany House Publishers, 2013 Rating: 4/5 stars Amazon Price: $10.87 Bottom Line From January 5-17, 2017 I will be in Israel both for a class and a pilgrimage. The professor of the class recommended that we read this book before we leave for Israel, so I decided to pick it up and give it a…
Who is the Didact? What is his relationship to the Librarian? Why is he evil? Above all, what happened to the Forerunners 100,000 years ago? The Forerunner trilogy gives us these answers, and they are essential to understanding the Halo story as a whole. The Covenant worshipped them as gods, assuming they transcended into godhood as the…
