✒️📚🎬 🍿Book and Movie Review : Project Hail Mary
New Favourite Unlocked!! The Hype is REAL
👽👾🚀👨🚀👩🚀🌌🛰☄️
📝 Book Details :
- Title : Project Hail Mary
- Author : Andy Weir
- Genre : Scifi , Space- Adventure, Thriller, Audiobook
- Age Range : Adult
- Number of Pages : 476
- Published Date : 4 May 2021
🌟 My Book Rating : 5/5
📋 Note : Book Review is followed by the Movie Review.
📚 ~ Book Review ~
✒️ Spoiler-Free Thoughts :
It’s very Fast-paced and even if you don’t care for the science stuff you’ll get sucked into this story very quickly. The main selling point is the mystery which unfolds as the story constantly jumps between the past and present timelines. The events occurring in the present start with our MC trying to figure out where he is and why/how exactly did he get there in the first place? The mission in the title becomes apparent. Alien contact and the mystery/suspense will keep you engaged though it’s mostly about adventure and comradeship.
I could predict the ending because there were hints throughout the story about what our MC values afterall. His core values and what’s uniquely important to him is apparent. He cares about meaning, personal purpose and the mundane/brainstorming. So his personal ARC made actual sense and it ended on a good note. I also liked the side characters.
🎧 Praise for the Audiobook :
The Narrator has done fantastic voices for all the characters using exceptional voice modulation and even changes pitch/speed/tone as required to make you feel what the MC is feeling in the uncanny atmosphere of space as various events unfold around him.
📝Personal Outlook on the Sci-Fi portion :
I really enjoyed the space research & the core science stuff too and how these streams of study intertwine on this mission. I’m actually a space and science buff so it really had me intrigued all along. Usually a scifi book is just a bunch of science stuff and concepts thrown in to support the narrative but here bonus points to Andy Weir for all the thorough research and logical explanations.
🚀👉📖 Advice Before Reading :
I highly suggest Immersive Reading i.e. Listening to this on Audio while following the Written text in the book (till the 30% mark) because the scientific stuff is heavy in the initial chapters.
⚠️Heads-up/Warning: If you’re thinking of going for either of reading/listening without using the full immersive experience of reading➕️listening uptil the 30% mark you are likely to get bored/zoned out or both and may slump.
So if you truly want to get the hang of all the scientific worldbuilding even if you’re not a science person then follow my advice above, you’ll actually enjoy learning about science this way. Post the 30% mark go fully audio because after that the science is only high-level and continuing to read more of that text whilst listening will actually slowdown/exhaust you. Trust by this point you’ll have gotten the hang of the story already.
📖📚✅️ Recommend to :
Adventure and Fantasy/Scifi Lovers OR Anybody in general who wants to have a good time and likes being moved by a beautiful story.
🍿🎬 ~ Movie Review (TBA) ~
I’ll be heading to a nearby theatre very soon. So expect this space to be updated ASAP. Super-excited to see this on screen especially with Ryan Gosling in the lead.
🌟 My Movie Rating and Full Movie Thoughts : to-be-updated
