User blog comment:SpartHawg948/An Open Letter Regarding Mass Effect: Deception/@comment-86.6.158.147-20120131230823

If worst comes to worst and ME3 or other content *does* reference events in this book, I'd recommend counting it as semi-canon at best. i.e. something along these lines occurred, but not exactly as described in the book, sort of like how one would treat a third hand source of information...