Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

158 reviews

danimain's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

emiliejade_bigelow's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous emotional informative reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

jennaaps's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous medium-paced

4.25

Overall an enjoyable read. The juxtaposition of very complex concepts and YA writing style was a bit odd, though. It’s not bad, but let’s just say that this book is for the stem nerds and not the literary nerds! And sometimes you just need a little swearing. If you’re going to talk about relativity, you should just say the word piss because two characters getting into a “peeing contest” is silly. 

I digress! It was a nice story and the exciting parts made up for the slow and difficult-to-understand bits, which were largely unimportant anyways. The simultaneous timelines were perfect for unfolding the story, too. And we love Rocky. 

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

teabrewer's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I loved this book! I loved the characters, the world-building, the references to other works of scifi, the surprising ending, the themes of friendship and the scientific sections.

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

lord1906's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous challenging funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

flooooo's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

A bit cringe sometimes. Also way less funny and waaaayy less believable than the martian - still a pageturner.
And obviously Rocky rocks.

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

bjjzoe's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

proudwing's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Loved the Martian yet found myself having to push through this at times. Much of the interplay in the Earth portions of the book reads more like a forum discussion than real conversation, and some of the dialogue and situations are cringeworthy to the point of wanting to hurl the book (the Courtroom scene and “Astronaut sex talk” particularly stand out). I found greater enjoyment in the sections set aboard the eponymous Hail Mary despite the protagonist (Ryland Grace) – academic exile and high-school science teacher – being no Mark Watney in terms of likeability or relatability. 

The real star of the book (apart from Tau Ceti) is
Rocky, the alien engineer. While this little guy does seem able to resolve just about any problem (Deus ex Petra?) that issue is overshadowed by the fun his character brings to the novel.
The later chapters are much more enjoyable, with the plot now focused on
the two explorers overcoming their barriers and resolving their shared problem
with believable technobabble and high tension action set-pieces, elements which Weir seems particularly adept at writing. 

Bit of a rocky road but overall, I liked the book and would recommend it to those who enjoyed the Martian with the caveat that it presents a situation far less believable. 

One thing to note is that despite the fact the book is only a few years old, it feels surprisingly dated at times. Seeing the real-world struggle to resolve COVID makes the effective and united international response to the threat of
astrophage
seem… unlikely. And frequent references to the effectiveness of ROSCOSMOS and Soyuz, again seem… misplaced given their current reputation. 


Expand filter menu Content Warnings

violerwolf's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

This book wildly oscillates between being 2 stars and 4 stars for me, so I averaged out the rating. People really love this book, and I understand why. Andy Weir has really mastered using tension and keeping you constantly guessing, wanting to find out the next piece of the astrophage puzzle. The science is written in an understandable way. Unfortunately, I think a lot of the humor and dialogue that Weir writes is.. painful. I hardly could get through the first 5 or so chapters of this book with its Marvel movie-esque “Well, that just happened” quips. The book excels at tense action, and I do love the relationship between Grace and
Rocky
, but I wouldn’t  reccomend this if you’re looking for complex or interesting characters.

Expand filter menu Content Warnings

tkivinen's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Fun premise, but not much character development and the translation I read was not the greatest, although there seemed to be a lot of puns so it's probably hard to translate them

Expand filter menu Content Warnings