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=**// Halo The Flood//**=

Author: William C. Dietz. Genre: Sci Fi. Length: 352 pg. Range: 5th- 12th Brent Schoffstall period 4

This book is a very great book. Let me tell you about three of the main characters. First, there is Master Chief. He is a physically and mentally enhanced super soldier. He is one of the last of the Spartans. Another character is Cortana. She is an A.I. That stands for artificial intelligence. She is very smart and can do almost anything. Finally, the last character is Yayap. He is a grunt, a species in the Covenant that is relatively low ranking and weak. So the book starts off right after the battle of Reach. The Marines and Master Chief just emerged from slip-space and find out where they are. Then they see it, a beautiful majesty known as Halo. It is a huge ring but it has many secrets yet to be revealed. You follow along as the main characters go through crazy adventures. They have the adventures on the Pillar of Autumn, Alpha Base, the Control room, and the Library. But there are many secrets in Halo, and those secrets are the Flood.... In the story, the Covenant are a race trying to wipe out humanity from existence. When Master Chief and the crew of the Pillar of Autumn stumble upon Halo, the Covenant are enraged. The Pillar of Autumn is attacked and gets shot down onto the ring. The Marines have a special selection of troopers known as "Hell Jumpers." They take over a building they refer to as Alpha Base. They proceed to use it as a command center. The Covenant and humans have continuous battles for Alpha Base until it finally remains in the Marines hands. Then the Covenant find something buried within Halo, that is The Flood. Flood are parasitic organisms that need a host organism to survive. They take over the body by sending a piercer into the nervous system. One such Marine who is taken over is Pvt. Jenkins. You often get to see the book from his point of view. Eventually Master Chief and Cortana find out that Halo is not a ring to kill the Flood but to kill their food, humans and aliens. So they come up with a plan to destroy the ring. They head back to the Pillar of Autumn and blow up its reactors. They run for the fighter bay, grab a space fighter and fly off the ring as it gets destroyed. Follow this book series with Halo The Fall of Reach, and Halo First Strike. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves action and science fiction. I give this book a 9/10.