Much slower than Cryptum

Primordium feels like an exposition dump for the Halo universe wrapped in a mediocre story.

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Drags, but worth it by the end.

loved it by the end, but for most of the way it really felt like it was dragging and was quite different from book 1, looking forward to the final chapter.

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Great story but slow and to very little end.

The story was lovely but incredibly slow, slightly repetitive, and frustrating, but that may be by design. The performance was brilliant and was a pleasure to listen to. The story was slow and never developed and was very difficult to follow at some points with very heavy descriptions. It felt like it was building to something big that never happened. However, if you are a big halo fan, some of the details and crumbs of information are amazing... especially the end.

Decent

Not as good as Cryptum, but still decent. It is definitely worth a listen for further insight into the vast lore that is Halo.

Drags like a dog on carpet

Phew! Well that's 8 and a half hours I'm not getting back.
I bought this book as a long time halo fan because I wanted to know more about the Forerunners fall to the flood. Unfortunately this book had other ideas.
The story is told via a human on a halo who spends 7 of the 8 hours wandering aimlessly (intentionally on some occasions) with an old man with an annoying voice and a female with no agency, oh and a Gorilla.
Rather than take us on a thrilling political thriller about life on the Forerunner homeworld, the story drags its shallow characters through hours of pointless speculation. unwilling as it seems to show us the story of the larger world the book has these details recited to us by various, poorly explained sources. Its lack of detail and depth is never more prevalent then when the main character Chakas wanders off in his own head, leaving you unsure what is happening or why.
The author seemed to remember they're writing a trilogy about an hour before the end when everything happens at once! They're rescued, they're captured, they're all dead but alive and all the while there's a 3rd party in the story in the form of an ONI ship in the current Halo timeliness but it's written like a series of memos. This would be fine if only the characters didn't keep interrupting eachother! you can't interrupt a memo or an email, it's like interrupting a mailed letter.
This whole book was a real shame because there was such an opportunity for grand story telling after the first book (which was fine if overlong). Why they chose the least interesting characters to be the main focus I cannot understand.
And I cannot understand why the Gorilla?!?! this has been bothering me for days! it does nothing other than find fruit and catch birds... not something I thought Gorilla were good at but who knows? certainly not the author.

A bit slow but some interesting points

Some of the lore is really interesting, but I found this book quite hard to follow at times. Even with really trying to focus on listening to the story and narration. Narrator is really good though. Puts a lot into the voices of each character.

Good story,

I wished these books had been read by the same person, having the characters voices change thought made it harder to connect with the characters

Continuing of Forerunner Story

Enjoying the insight into the Halo universe

Great narration enjoyed each of the character way they brought to life enjoyed Riser and all the interaction with early human species

Good continuity

Enjoyed the story. continues the Haloverse can't wait for the next book starting as soon as this review is done.

good book

I found the story tempo to slow down a bit too much halfway through but the narrators voices were incredible!