Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund is a very exciting and interesting book. It is the third book in the Halo series. The story takes place one thousand years in the future during a war between the human race and the evil alien juggernaut named the Covenant. The human race is fighting for its survival because the alien's goal is to destroy all human life. The one hope for the human race is the Spartan program that turns ordinary soldiers into great warriors. Eric Nylund writes this book with a lot of action, detail, and realism. These are characteristics I find enjoyable in a book.

"Their comrades on either side of the door howled and attacked. The whine of plasma fire echoed through the bay as blue-white energy balls crashed into the Chief's own shields (Page 74)." This book has descriptive action fighting throughout the whole book. The Spartan...