Rating: 
Summary: Great!!
Review: This book, to me, was fascinating. I love the game not only to play, but the story is great too. The book tells you a lot of things you don't learn about in the game. It explains everything about the game. Every true Halo fan should read this book.
Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: I read the Fall of Reach, a great book and beaten the game of Halo in Legendary. Both the game, the book and Halo the Flood are absolutely must-haves if you love halo. Even if you don't know what is Halo it's a good story.Well The Flood explains alot. You get new info on how the Covenant social structure is and on their tactics. Helljumpers are explained alot. Many things are worse than the game. The little blobs are even more powerful in the book. In the game they don't qualify as something to care about in normal and easy. Also they explain why you are the only one to survive, and many questions I had about Halo, the ring itself.
One of the better aspects is the talk of machinery. It was written by a ex-marine.
Conclusion:
The Flood gives you a insight on covenant motives, the forerunners and a more detailed explanation of how everything happened. It really makes you wait for Halo 2. This book opens the path for many new things that will surely be in Halo2.
A MUST-BUY if you like Halo. Otherwise it's still a great book.
Recomendations:
Read Halo The Fall of Reach before this one.
Rating: 
Summary: A little disapointing
Review: This book follows the campaign of the video game Halo. Duh. Along the way, it follows the adventures of the rest of the Marine and Navy personel, as well as the happenings of a revenge-driven Elite.
Unlike the first book, Fall of Reach, this book offens nothing new to the Halo universe. no insights into the SPARTAN program, no explanations onto the Covenant motives, no details to the Forerunners and their Halo toys.
I can only assume that Bungie is saving stuff like that for Halo 2. However, it makes for a very boring, and kinda pointless, book.
If i recall correctly, the author of this book is a retired Marine. So the book has a very good usage of military jargon and slang, ell-tee and the like. But it lacks in discriptivness. he'll often stream through a large chunk of a level in a sentance or too, espcially during Assault on the Command Center, and Two Betrayals. Granted most of these levels are just run and gun, but I would have used this as a chance to create some good battle tension, a la Rainbow 6 or something.
My biggest complaint is how the book handles the inro duction of the Flood. In the game, the actions of Keyes and the Flood are amystery right up untill you meet them. In the book, you know what's happened before the end of Silent Cartographer.
In all, you should only read this if you really enjoy Halo and the Halo universe. DO NOT read it if you plan on playing Halo and haven't yet. The game is much better.
yeah, that's all.
Rating: 
Summary: Fine book, just not what i was expecting
Review: I've beaten Halo multiple times. No, i don't own the game. Yes, i've read the "Fall of Reach", yes, "The Flood" isn't perfect. I like this book, but it doesn't deserve a 5. The Master Chief seems...weak. The battles aren't written "right". IT skips thru verrrrrrrrrry important levels in diologue like "he ran through many corridors filled with covenant and flood. He took them out. After the 20th corridor..."
It bugs me. I like it. i don't love it. On to the good:
"the flood" has a MUCH deeper storyline than the game. You learn things that weren't in it, and it make you want to play the game through parts that you already have beaten, just to hear "that one crucial line". The Master Chief is shown as an emotionless person, good or bad? You're choice. The ending about the marines is simply breathtaking. Cap'n Keyes is strict, and Cortana is funny. The flood are...well, they're the flood. Freaky creatures that need phsyciotrists. And food. The twists in this book are nothing new if you have beaten the game, but it makes you gasp if you haven't. A great companion with the "Fall of Reach", a completely awesome 5 star official prequel to the book and the game.Although "the flood" is slightly dissapointing, it's an awesome read. Buy it.
Rating:
Summary: Great book
Review: one of the best books i have ever read they add a few things that makes the book interesting for example you find out how keys gets captured i recommend book.
Rating: 
Summary: not very good
Review: i thought that the book was not very good the first book was much better. In the first book "the fall of reach" you learn about the Master Chief and the Spartans you learn why Master Chief is the only one of his kind left. you learn all about his training and it leads up to the game perfectly....but when i read the second book "the flood" i thought it shouldnt have been written.... maybe if you havent played the game you should read it but for all of us [real] Halo fans you played the game and already know whats going to happen. so i wasnt really into the book because i already knew the outcome. In "the fall of reach" you dont know whats going to happen next. so i recomend reading Halo "the fall of reach"
Rating:
Summary: Halo: The Flood
Review: It was a great book, once you get started you cant stop.Here are beautys that peirce like swords and burn like cold iron.
Rating:
Summary: Not quite as good as Eric Nylund's book, but still not bad.
Review: Eric Nylund's book (The Fall of Reach) added more to the Halo franchise by describing the origins of the Spartans, and the events that led up to what was actually depicted in the game itself. Since "The Flood" follows the events in the game very closely, it doesn't feel as fresh as the previous book. But William Dietz still does a pretty good job of bringing the story to life and making it interesting, considering the material he had to work with. Let's face it, the story in the game is basically one big fire fight. A good portion of this book are scenes lifted straight out of the cutscenes in the game. But Dietz does manage to add some new material as well. He includes a well thought out subplot about the Marines, and what happens to them in the Master Chief's absence. I actually enjoyed this part of the book the most. Dietz also depicts some events from the perspective of the Covenant, which also gave the book a bit more depth. All in all, this book is a good novelization of the game and fills in a few blanks as well.
Rating:
Summary: Halo - The Story Continues!
Review: Wow! I have finished reading Nylund's "The Fall of Reach" just a month ago. The way the story was told was incredible - it breathed true life into this Bungie masterpiece, and Halo: The Flood continues the tradition! This book is complete with a fresh new perspective told from the Covenant's point of view, in addition to the action we have come to expect from the Master Chief.
Similar to Halo: The Fall of Reach, The Flood contains the finest ideas from other science fiction works - in particular the Helljumper's pods remind me of the vehicles used in Starship Troopers (the book). I'm pleased to see that such ideas have carried over to this work.
The Halo book series tells the incredible story of Halo and the human-covenant battle that rages across the galaxy. Sure, the book is based on a video game, but don't let that stop you from reading it! You don't even need to play the game if you read both books in sequence - they are packed with pleanty of detail. Overall I give this book an A+. Now I just wish Bungie would comission a novel or two to tell the story of the UESC Marathon.
Rating:
Summary: Do you even need to read this to know you have to get it?
Review: More answers for the pining Halo masses! I don't want to spoil aything, but if you've ever had any wonderings about the proceedings in the game, chances are the answers are in this book. A great read. Tantilising new revelations straight from the Halo Bible, and obviously a MUST for anyone whose read, played, heard of, spotted on a shelf, dwells in the same house as a copy of, or even happened to have walked past a person who has played Halo.
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