Halo: Primordium

If you are a Halo Franchise fan, you have to read the forerunner Saga.Amazon : Nice Packaging, Acceptable delivery time.Book :Start reading the this series and it will make you read all the books in the series. Second book in the Saga tells about the crumbling Foreruuner empire before a species which far less technological then them but still overpowers them by their adaptivity created by their victims of the past.Read it to dive into the past of forerunners and you will be astonished by it.

Found the book rather dull and slow paced. There were some pretty intriguing revelations made, which as a Halo fan you absolutely should not pass on but such moments were few and far between. My least favorite book of the Forerunner Saga.

This book is fantastic. I would say, definitely read Cryptum first and definitely read Silentium after. Greg Bear is one of the greatest things to happen to the Halo canon, he writes well and his work has implications running through Halo 3 and Halo 4 for the Xbox 360 as well as repurcussions for the human race overall - it answers a whole bunch of questions you had, but leaves you asking many others (which I will add are mostly answered in Silentium, to my stunned surprise as the answers were not what I was expecting!) Certainly a must-buy book!

The beginning of the book was slow, but I read on and was not dissapointed. Interesting nonhuman characters with flushed our development, some very interesting lore and an ending that leaves me asking questions for what will happen in the next book.I would recommend this read to halo lore fans, however for anyone else I'm not sure it will have the same impact.

The sequel to the first book, tries to go even further with its story-telling and like the first one, opens up doors to your mind which leaves you curious and wondering what is actually happening, it shows great plot and narrative which help built the structure of the forerunner saga

It might just be me but I found The Forerunner Saga to be unnecessarily complicated and boring at times. It will add to any Halo fans collection but it is not a series of books that I could get invested in at all, it feels like it adds little to the universe other than some background to characters that appear in later Halo games!

A hard read. Harder than Cryptum and much more obtuse than the other more traditional Halo books. Yet once the story picks up pace around halfway through, it reveals secrets we have sought since the Halo 1 video game. If you can drag yourself through the almost boring first half of Primordium you will find revelations and enjoyment. An essential book for anyone interested in the history and lore of the Halo universe.