Funkmon over at Subnova wrote up a scathing review of Eric Nylund's latest Halo novel, Ghosts of Onyx. Although he gave high marks for writing and story, in the end he wanted fewer new characters and more of the Master Chief-- and the reality is the book isn't about Master Chief at all.

For my own part, I liked it, ranking it right up there with Fall of Reach and way above The Flood, which I didn't care for at all. I think some of Funkmon's criticisms are unfair; I don't think Nylund was free to explore events between Halo 2 and Halo 3 since the latter picks up pretty much where the former left off. The book exists more to clarify your interpretations of what has already been revealed and to drop a few hints about what is to come, not to actually move the main story forward.

Where I do agree with the review is on areas where things we see in the novel just don't match up with what we see in gameplay; encounters that simply don't play out the way we know they would in the game, for various reasons.