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morgan_evernight 's review for:
All You Need Is Kill
by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
I can't decide if I "liked it" or "really liked it". The problem is I saw the movie Edge of Tomorrow first, and absolutely loved the movie. I was hoping the book was going to be more like the movie and it wasn't. So it ruined at least half of the book for me. If I had read the the book first, I think I would have liked it much more. I settled for a "liked it" rating, because I have to say I liked how the movie sucked me from the very beginning instead of halfway through.
The movie started off very action packed with sequences of restarting the day over and over and you see all that happens around the main character. The book was mainly internal monologue of the main character, Keiji Kiriya. Yes, he relives the day over and over too, and there is a lot of violence but it doesn't have the adrenaline pumping action that the movie had (at least for me).
I didn't get sucked into the book until halfway through. From here you get more of a back story from a 3rd person perspective on how life got to be the way it was on earth due to the mimics. You also get Rita's backstory from 3rd person perspective at this point. After that begins the real interactions between the main character (Keiji in the book) and Rita. I found all of this section (along with the back stories) very fascinating and I got sucked in.
After reading the book, I found the ending of the book to be a lot more believable than where they took the movie. Not to mention certain aspects they included such as side effects the characters had from being stuck in the time loops.
Though I found the ending results from the book more believable compared to the movie, I preferred Rita's development story from the movie more than the book. I don't mind her being naturally good at fighting compared to the main character, because the main character wasn't a fighter to begin with. However, the movie most of her skill was developed due to her time looping, but in the book she was basically born with the talent to kill. For me that took away from the developing relationship between her and the main character, because she was born to kill and he had to develop his skill through the loops. It didn't give them the opportunity to really meet on equal footing other than just getting stuck in the time loops.
There was not much about the book that made it into the movie AT ALL!!! Other than the main plot. If you haven't read the book or seen the movie, out of the respect for the creator, I would read the book first then go see the movie. Both are enjoyable, but I think the book will be more appreciated if experienced first.
The movie started off very action packed with sequences of restarting the day over and over and you see all that happens around the main character. The book was mainly internal monologue of the main character, Keiji Kiriya. Yes, he relives the day over and over too, and there is a lot of violence but it doesn't have the adrenaline pumping action that the movie had (at least for me).
I didn't get sucked into the book until halfway through. From here you get more of a back story from a 3rd person perspective on how life got to be the way it was on earth due to the mimics. You also get Rita's backstory from 3rd person perspective at this point. After that begins the real interactions between the main character (Keiji in the book) and Rita. I found all of this section (along with the back stories) very fascinating and I got sucked in.
After reading the book, I found the ending of the book to be a lot more believable than where they took the movie. Not to mention certain aspects they included such as side effects the characters had from being stuck in the time loops.
Though I found the ending results from the book more believable compared to the movie, I preferred Rita's development story from the movie more than the book. I don't mind her being naturally good at fighting compared to the main character, because the main character wasn't a fighter to begin with. However, the movie most of her skill was developed due to her time looping, but in the book she was basically born with the talent to kill. For me that took away from the developing relationship between her and the main character, because she was born to kill and he had to develop his skill through the loops. It didn't give them the opportunity to really meet on equal footing other than just getting stuck in the time loops.
There was not much about the book that made it into the movie AT ALL!!! Other than the main plot. If you haven't read the book or seen the movie, out of the respect for the creator, I would read the book first then go see the movie. Both are enjoyable, but I think the book will be more appreciated if experienced first.