HALO: The Thursday War

HALO, Book 9

By: Karen Traviss

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

The second novel of the Kilo-Five Trilogy by number-one New York Times best-selling author Karen Traviss - part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!

It's 2553. Welcome to humanity’s new war: silent, high-stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for the Office of Naval Intelligence’s black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Sangheili, once the military leaders of the alien alliance known as the Covenant, from regrouping and threatening humankind again. What began as a routine dirty-tricks operation - keeping the Sangheili occupied with their own insurrection - turns into a desperate bid to extract one member of Kilo-Five from the seething heart of a brutal civil war.

But troubles never come singly for Kilo-Five. Colonial terrorism is once again surfacing on one of the human worlds that survived the war against the Covenant, and the man behind it is much more than just a name to Spartan Naomi-010.

Meanwhile, the treasure trove of Forerunner technology recovered from the Forerunner shield world of Onyx is being put to work, even as a kidnapped Sangheili plots vengeance on the humans he fears will bring his people to the brink of destruction....

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Absolutely excellent from beginning to end.

literally my ONLY complaint, and it's minor, is the narrator's insistence on eliminating the letter "g" from words such as "strength" and "length". i know it's petty, but every time he says "strenth" or "lenth", it takes me out of the story for just a moment. It's a pet peeve. Otherwise excellent performance.

An amazing story

Karen Traviss does it again with an action packed story with very enjoyable characters and character development. The narrator euan Morton really improved in this book and helped make me feel so much more invested in these characters and I loved it! Looking forward to more stories involving these two!

Halo is a suprisingly adult sci-fi series

I'm greatly enjoying this Kilo 5 trilogy. It fills in some gaps in the story line, and Thursday War in particular gives the Forerunners a new mysterious flare. I've always been unsatisfied with the plot jump between Halo 3 and 4. Great audio performance too, and definitely leaves you ready to dive into the next book.

This was a genuinely good trilogy

I purely loved this book let alone the other 2 that go with it. It is one of the more enjoyable set of books to the halo series. I’ve been a fan of halo since 2001 and think this book does a great job at telling more post war info and I feel like it’s very well written

amazing

this is my first time listening through the Kilo-Five Trilogy after reading it twice. it took me a while to get used to the Scottish narrator, but ive come to prefer him over Johnathan Davis and Scott Brick. Thursday War was my favorite book out of the trilogy but the trilogy, as a whole, is so brilliantly written that my brain ends up being fatigued from listening or reading long before i lose interest. there just never seems to be a good stopping point, solely because all three books are constant excitement.

Don’t believe the bad reviews

This series is great and the people who diss it only do so because they’re upset that this author isn’t focusing all its time on Spartans. The trilogy is very interesting and got me hooked soon into the first few chapters.

Ignore all the bad reviews, they are only doing that because those readers personally dislike the author either because of other books she has written or because she is a woman.

Better Than Grasslands

The Kilo Five trilogy definitely gets better as it goes on. Every good thing from Glasslands is here with less of the bad stuff, but it definitely rears it's ugly head here and in Mortal Dictata.

Good

It's good and interesting. A good addition to the hall universe. I would recommend this.

makes my top 5

good back story for current and previous characters, they tie well together, im excited to continue the kilo five trilogy.

It was a great 2nd book to the K5 trilogy

Wasn’t as much intensity as book 1 but still loved the story progression. Can’t wait to get thru book 3