Dal Cecil Runo

What's real anymore? That what the book wants you to question

Here goes my rapid fire reasoning for my 5 stars:
1. I couldn't put it down.*
2. The characters felt so real I wouldn't doubt this as much, but I doubt anyway. *
3. The twists and turns of the structure had me engaged, very stream of consciousness. *
4.The writing was simple, yet catchy and authentic. *
5. Critique on religion? Yes, give me all of it.
Fantastic novel. For brief moments it made me question whether this minister was a real person.

So good!

This guy was ahead of his time. Finally I listened to this book. There's a guy on YouTube who does full audiobooks with great voice acting and atmospheric sounds. It was a great experience and the story in itself left me wanting to revisit it from time to time. I think this and 1984 combined are a great way to foresee the real life dystopia that humanity is heading towards.
I'm just glad I read this.

I listened to the audiobook version and enjoyed those extra details that can only be found in the audio format.

I love how Weir combines the detailed scientific plot points with humor, and for this particular novel, I love how he took this cliche trope that retreats anything and anyone disabled like we're only worth to die somewhere in the plot, and he just subverted it! I wont detail this further. I just love the way he wrote this story. Absolutely refreshing.

If you read The Martian and you liked it, then you will probably like this too.

Made-up fantasy, too visual, too many classes. I'm blind, I don't do made-up worlds in general. Not the book's fault. I should have read the blurb before picking it up. Someone recommended it because there's a blind character somewhere, but this is clearly for sighted readers. Just not my kinda genre.