Well in Primordium's favor at least (I know I sure loved the hell out of the book even though it was on the slow side and some bits were boring), it didn't completely ass -blam!- canon and the whole series and spit on what Bungie had been working hard to do and develop :/ There is so much wrong with both Glasslands and Thursday War, there aren't even enough words to talk about it all. But suffice to say, pretty much every single little thing in there is unbelievable wrong on every single possible level. Halsey is out of character, Mendez is [i][b]IMMENSELY[/b][/i] out of character, ONI is doing shit they'd never be able to pull or get away with, the whole Sangheili species is out of character and not at all accurate as well as their levels of technology....everything about the books is a perversion and breaking of canon...a Travissty if you will ;P

If you hadn't noticed the elites were still racist as ever in halo 3. The arbiter was the only thing preventing them from killing each other. If you hadn't noticed, Hood has an argument based off grudges when shipmaster eras glasses half of Africa. Traviss never went against the bungie story.

No they weren't. There's not one example of Covenantesque behavior from the Elites in Halo 3. And Halo 3 isn't the only example of what I said, read Conversations from the Universe, which was included with Halo 2, or read up on the background material for Ntho Sroam (the Blue Elite player in Halo 3), or go read Cole Protocol. The Glasslands Trilogy does not at all fit or match up with previous canon in this regard (and many other examples too). The vast majority of the Elites respected humanity and were either closet human sympathizers or open about their opinions on humanity...and yet in Glasslands every single Elite is explicitly stated to hate humans and wants them all dead, shown both by Phillips (the supposed expert on all things Sangheili) stating that every single Elite has always hated humans and never felt anything else and that's never going to change, as well as every single Elite character aside from the Arbiter wanting to go back to wiping out the human race...the only differences being when they think they're able to do it.