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A review by bookswithbuns
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
5.0
This book was recommended to me by one of my best friends @imaaberg, so thank you Tall Oatmeal Child™, and I decided to do a ✨very rare thing✨ (for me) and go into this novel completely blind (he has good taste, I trust him without question lol).
While most things STEM-related have never been my strong suit (like, at alllll lol), I’ve always been really fascinated with science; experimental & theoretical physics; the concepts of space & time — there’s just so much we don’t know about the world and I think that’s equal parts exciting and terrifying.
This is less of a review this time around because I really want to take my time in reading this novel & fully soak up its world and some of its more dense subject matter. So far though, I am very much enjoying it and would definitely recommend giving it a shot! Without spoiling anything, I will say that what got me invested from the start was the mystery/amnesia trope used by the author. When done correctly (like it is here), it’s both fun & frustrating to know only as much as our protagonist does at first (which is basically next to nothing), then following him as he discovers & tries to make sense of all the many pieces to what is an otherwise extremely intricate puzzle.
While most things STEM-related have never been my strong suit (like, at alllll lol), I’ve always been really fascinated with science; experimental & theoretical physics; the concepts of space & time — there’s just so much we don’t know about the world and I think that’s equal parts exciting and terrifying.
This is less of a review this time around because I really want to take my time in reading this novel & fully soak up its world and some of its more dense subject matter. So far though, I am very much enjoying it and would definitely recommend giving it a shot! Without spoiling anything, I will say that what got me invested from the start was the mystery/amnesia trope used by the author. When done correctly (like it is here), it’s both fun & frustrating to know only as much as our protagonist does at first (which is basically next to nothing), then following him as he discovers & tries to make sense of all the many pieces to what is an otherwise extremely intricate puzzle.