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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Very good, although maybe I liked more the movie (Edge of Tomorrow -Live Die Repeat).
Wow. This was great. Story, characters, writing (the translator did a superb job), everything. If you like any sort of down in the mud scifi (or even just that sort of war fiction and have no opinion on scifi), you'll like this. Fans of Drake, Weber, Ringo, etc, etc.
Of course, having just read this, I'm sure I will now hate "Edge of Tomorrow" as they will get it all wrong. Stlil, this was a great read.
Of course, having just read this, I'm sure I will now hate "Edge of Tomorrow" as they will get it all wrong. Stlil, this was a great read.
A short book that packs an emotional punch.
This is the tenth book I've finished this year, and the best. Which is truly amazing given how short it is.
Basically there are only two characters, Keiji and Rita. Both are shown with huge depth and in Keiji's case, a moderate sense of growth. The action is omnipresent and the pacing is perfect. Though if I am honest, I wish it had been slower and more drawn out, just so it would have lasted longer. This book has all the aspects that I look for in a perfect 5-star book. A world I want to know more about and see more of, characters that I grow attached to, and even after I set it down, I continue to think about it.
A special note: You may be turned off by the fact that this book was originally Japanese and written about a Japanese guy. Fear not, most of the time it seemed like the book was written by an American that just so happened to have a Japanese protagonist. And any references to Japanese culture that were made were either promptly explained, or eventually explained.
If you found your way to this review, it probably means you like SciFi. Read this book. Now. Move it to the top of your to-read list.
This is the tenth book I've finished this year, and the best. Which is truly amazing given how short it is.
Basically there are only two characters, Keiji and Rita. Both are shown with huge depth and in Keiji's case, a moderate sense of growth. The action is omnipresent and the pacing is perfect. Though if I am honest, I wish it had been slower and more drawn out, just so it would have lasted longer. This book has all the aspects that I look for in a perfect 5-star book. A world I want to know more about and see more of, characters that I grow attached to, and even after I set it down, I continue to think about it.
A special note: You may be turned off by the fact that this book was originally Japanese and written about a Japanese guy. Fear not, most of the time it seemed like the book was written by an American that just so happened to have a Japanese protagonist. And any references to Japanese culture that were made were either promptly explained, or eventually explained.
If you found your way to this review, it probably means you like SciFi. Read this book. Now. Move it to the top of your to-read list.
3 stars. I read the translation by Alexander O. Smith. I quite enjoyed the movie Edge of Tomorrow, which was based on this book. The writing style of the book was quite informal, full of profanity and odd references – unlike any other book I’ve read recently. The plot was fast and interesting, but the premise and the key twists were poorly explained and didn’t make sense.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Good story that was different enough from the movie to add to my enjoyment. Fast manga read, one star docked because the battle illustrations were somewhat difficult to parse.
Great book, more of a love story than the movie. Not for everybody...
If I hadn't seen the film, I'd have given this three stars, because the idea is amazing, but the film does it so much better, and the writing here just lets the idea down so much.
It kinda reads like it was written by a hormonal seventeen-year old. A huge number of dialogues read like competitions to say the coolest thing and have it sit as the last word. Every single woman in the book except the one called Full Metal Bitch is introduced by focusing on the importance of her breasts, and the narrator at one point tries to divide women into three camps -- babes, uglies and ones you should send off to war 'cos they're too ugly.
You could say, hey, that's the character, he's a grunt, but it's pretty much all the characters, and there's no self-awareness or self-commentary on it. I've read plenty of novels that accurately caricature the attitude of some less enlightened soldiers, while making it perfectly clear that's not how the writer feels.
It also fudges the mechanics of the time-loop stuff way more than the film, which does a much better job of explaining without doing too much exposition, whereas most of the explanation here is pure exposition and it still leaves things fuzzier. I'm not sure why this didn't start life as a manga, tbh, it would suit it better.
But, I gotta hand it to the idea, which although it is in a way just a sci-fi spin on Groundhog Day, is a really good one at its core.
It kinda reads like it was written by a hormonal seventeen-year old. A huge number of dialogues read like competitions to say the coolest thing and have it sit as the last word. Every single woman in the book except the one called Full Metal Bitch is introduced by focusing on the importance of her breasts, and the narrator at one point tries to divide women into three camps -- babes, uglies and ones you should send off to war 'cos they're too ugly.
You could say, hey, that's the character, he's a grunt, but it's pretty much all the characters, and there's no self-awareness or self-commentary on it. I've read plenty of novels that accurately caricature the attitude of some less enlightened soldiers, while making it perfectly clear that's not how the writer feels.
It also fudges the mechanics of the time-loop stuff way more than the film, which does a much better job of explaining without doing too much exposition, whereas most of the explanation here is pure exposition and it still leaves things fuzzier. I'm not sure why this didn't start life as a manga, tbh, it would suit it better.
But, I gotta hand it to the idea, which although it is in a way just a sci-fi spin on Groundhog Day, is a really good one at its core.