Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir || book review (some spoilers)

Hi everyone, in this video I'm reviewing Andy Weir's latest science fiction novel, Project Hail Mary

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#andyweir #projecthailmary #sciencefiction

Review criteria
***** - Blew my mind. Simple as.
**** - Great story, well written, entertained me all the way.
*** - Good story, well written, mostly entertaining.
** - Has good bones but failed in a number of ways.
* - Failed in every way a book can.
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MY STUFF
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MY SCI-FI NOVELS

DELPHINE DESCENDS
After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.

When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.

She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.

But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.

BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.

Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.

Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:

Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...

The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…

Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...

Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
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GOODREADS
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[jasperdoornbos]

Thanks Darrel, i read the book and loved it. As a matter of fact, i couldn’t stop reading and finished it in one go.

[KeytarArgonian]

One of the best things I found about PHM was how my perception of Astrophage completely did a 180, as in the beginning it was this terrifying force that threatened the Earth, an alien unknowable menace that must be stopped. But by the end, I found myself rooting for these little guys survival, who were now mission critical and at the mercy of the relentless Taumoeba that would stop at nothing in their ruthless consumption efforts to sate their hunger.

[thedanielstraight]

Brilliant work Darrel. It's on my list now!

[whatevanreads]

Great review! It was my favorite book I read last month. It definitely has the potential to get a movie adaptation. I still have to read The Martian, which I'm really looking forward to.

[virgilpillay]

Loving this channel bro ❤️. I'm reading this book now.

[abeziesing]

Well done Darrel. I didn't enjoy Project Hail Mary as much as you did but I very much enjoyed your review of it. Also, I'd like to purchase a Book Bot 5000 t-shirt please.

[purpleslog]

I read this when it came out and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was completely pulled into the storyline and the problem-solving. I enjoyed the first person narration.

[Indypackrat]

I would say that was a very good review. I quite enjoyed "Project Hail Mary" . It was one of those books that you truly get lost in and was a fast read for me. I try to venture outside of science fiction every once in awhile but its just my jam. "Project Hail Mary" gave me my fix for sure.

[Testify]

I read this book on your recommendation and I really enjoyed it... thank you....amaze amaze amaze

[jamesdouglas]

As a first contact book this novel was spot on in regards to the difficulties in communicating with an alien species.

[marca]

I do wonder how it'll convert to film?

[KevTheImpaler]

I am frustrated it is taking so long to get to the bookshops. I waited all last year. It is still not in the bookshops now.

[libertyauto]

Thank you for your review, and I think it was pretty much spot on.

I almost didn't read this book for two reasons.
1st, was a big fear of next book failure, after The Martian was done so well.
2nd, was a recently self imposed rule that the main story of new novels for me, must take place outside our solar system.
Luckily, a friend had read it and let me know it was indeed interstellar. And I am so glad I did read it.
It did not demand too much suspension of disbelief. I really liked the concept of Rocky the alien having a subtle sense of humor, and Grace's joy at finding it.
There were some personality similarities between The Martian's Watney and Hail Mary's Grace, but not too much to pop my immersion bubble.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

Edited: to correct book count.

[mitchellspencer]

I only had one issue with the book itself. How the taumoeba got into his fuel. He says they must have gotten in from his samples on the ship. But nitrogen at that point is very lethal to them, so them getting out into the air on the ship would have killed them immediately.

[cent]

Reminder me of Niven with the distances and the first contact

[thenlysamurai]

Happy Happy Happy. Is how i felt with this book.

[markd]

Read it a couple of months ago, a lot like The Martian, 'John boy Walton' Grace "sciences the shit" out of the problem.
A great page turner.
Would make a great flik.

[JLchevz]

Very entertaining book, not the most groundbreakingly insane sci fi there is but it's a perfectly good and fun book for anyone.

[KeytarArgonian]

Rocky is the best Alien Bro in Sci Fi since Garrus Vakarian, hands down.

[shobhitkaul]

On your recommendation.. I am reading it now