Way better than The Martian. A must read for everyone. I really enjoyed the complex characters and the way the story unfolded.

Amazing. I recommended it to my boyfriend who hasn't read a book since high school required reading. He finished it in 3 days! He still talks about how great it was and how it has gotten him into reading now.

Project Hail Mary is the newest book by Andy Weir (author of The Martian). I read this last year but wanted to still review it here. This book is a stand-alone hard science fiction story set on a space ship. Like The Martian, it features a lone protagonist who must survive his predicament, but in this story, he also must save all of humanity.

I enjoyed this book a lot and found it took several surprising twists that kept me guessing at the outcome until the end. Being a fan of Andy Weir's earlier books (The Martian, Artemis), I did go into this with certain expectations. While parts of the story are told in a non-linear fashion, it worked out well to fill in the gaps in Ryland Grace's memory and give the reader the full story.

The ally that he meets was a wonderful character and I found their initial interactions believable despite the need for fiction to speed these types of challenges along. And I know that I'm being intentionally vague here because I don't want to spoil this for anyone who hasn't read the book yet.

Overall this was one of my favorite reads of 2021! It won the Goodreads Choice award for Best Science Fiction for 2021 and is under development as a movie.

I LOVED this story. I downloaded it from Netgalley but didn't read it for a while because I was afraid of being disappointed after The Martian. I should not have waited. One of the best books I read all year. It is fantastic and I have been recommending it to everyone! Just fantastic.

I enjoyed The Martian and Artemis, but my goodness did I LOVE this book. I couldn't put it down. It was a nice blend of reality based science and pure science fiction with more character development than we saw in The Martian. Highly recommend. Thank you to net galley for access to this book in exchange for an honest review.

Enjoyable story, and I really liked the linguistic aspects. While the plot requires some suspension of belief, I raced through it and liked the ending. A fun read.

I’ve found Weir’s books to be pretty hit or miss, and this one fell a little more on the miss side for me.

Andy Weir has a way of making science and math, and a lot of it, somehow manageable entertainment for someone not very "math brained". He is a very strong writer! I loved his other books. And this one, while it had a little more heart with Gace's new found buddy, I couldn't get into it as much. It went a little too far out of my willing suspension of disbelief and it wasnt' my favorite by him, but I still enjoyed the reading experience.

Andy Weir continues to show why he's a master of SF - this time, injecting a little more speculative SF into his hard SF, but still, a fantastic read. His characters are masterfully fleshed out, the science and information fully explored, and the story progresses expertly. This is a book I can wholeheartedly recommend to any SF fan, and probably to those who don't describe themselves that way but appreciate good writing.

Really great story with a very satisfying ending. Highly recommend this one for anyone who enjoys Sci-Fi.

I am not a science fiction fan but I loved this story. It is ultimately the storty of freindship and sacrifice. Excellent as an audio book too!

It took awhile to get to it, but I finally did. It will certainly be added to my list of highly recommended sci-fi books.

Another tightly crafted narrative - though we had a hard time engaging with the dad-jokiness of the narrator this time.

Andy Weir hits it out of the park again! This was one of my favorite books of 2021--it recaptured The Martian's unputdownable quality and kept me hooked from the start. The narrative structure, with flashbacks slowly revealing critical information, worked really well for me. Can't recommend it enough!

Project Hail Mary rivals the Martian -- one of my favorite books -- in quality, suspense, and entertainment. I couldn't put this down and have recommended it to multiple others, including my serious-sci-fi loving father, all who read and loved it.

From the first sentence I was riveted. A man wakes up and doesn't know where or who he is or how he came to be in a very very strange place. The book unfolds and goes places you wouldn't imagine. Definitely true sci fi with quite a bit of the science part, maybe just a tad too much for my personal taste, but oh what a creative mind this writer has.

- i absolutely ADORED this book
- i would 1000000% die for rocky
- made me giggle so many times
- talk about character development
- lots of science but it’s accessible and digestible
- alternates timelines but does the flashbacks PERFECTLY, it fits into the story and reveals things at the right time
- if i HAD to have one complaint it’d be slightly long chapters 🤣
- but seriously i loved this book

If you enjoyed reading The Martian by Andy Weir, I think you will really like Project Hail Mary. Ryland Grace is all alone in space and he has no idea how he got there, where he's going, or even his own name. Slowly the memories return and he realizes he has a mission vital to the survival of the human race. Alternating between his current situation and the brief clips of memories, we learn all about this project at which the whole Earth has thrown everything they have. Light years from home, and completely on his own, Grace has to solve the possibly unsolvable.

I really enjoyed the adventure in this book. The storyline was great, but I thought some of the science could have been edited down a bit. I'm not suggesting removing it all, but it felt like unnecessary exposition that was left in purely to prove the calculations had been done. I love science and I am fascinated by all the things I don't know, but I will admit to skimming a fair few pages of this book.

I liked the way the story was told with flashbacks to the leadup to outer space. If it had been told linearly, it may have gotten boring, but not so with the alternating timeline. I am reluctant to say more about what I loved in this book for fear of spoilers, so I'll just recommend you read it on your own. Also, I am so excited that a film version is already in the works and starring Ryan Gosling. That is a movie I'll definitely want to see. I really hope they do a good job with it!

Generally speaking, aliens aren’t of much interest to me as a reader, but Weir did a fine job of hooking me anyway with his latest space adventure, Project Hail Mary.

While I prefer the hard science of The Martian to the alien encounter/pretend science of this book, Weir managed to keep the alien stuff in a realm that is palatable for those who liked the potential reality of The Martian. Is this less believable? Yes, but Weir isn’t trying to write as though it isn’t. The story is meant to be a lighthearted adventure, with little enough interpersonal conflict such as to keep it out of Space Opera territory.

I do struggle with junk science in books that aren’t just straight fantasy (especially knowing what Weir is capable of having read The Martian), but if you can get away from comparing the two books (as you can see, I have *sort of* succeeded at this), this proves to be a fun read.

Did I wish it was more like The Martian? Sure. Was I also thankful that it’s an infinitely better book than Artemis and a fun story in its own right? Also yes.

*I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.*

While I didn't love this one as much as The Martian I enjoyed it significantly more than Andy Weir's second book. Looking forward to more books in the future from this author.