These few lines are packed with mysteries and foreshadowing, immediately causing the reader to want to know what is going on, and what is going to happen next. I meant to say “Leave me alone” – a completely reasonable response in my opinion – but I failed to speak. The soft, feminine voice lacks emotion and the pronunciation is identical to the previous time she said it. I drift back to sleep.Ī few minutes pass, then I hear it again. Something about the question irritates me. This one absolutely grabbed me: “‘What’s two plus two?’ It’s harsh, but if you are standing in a bookshop or browsing online and you open a book and the first few paragraphs, the first words actually, do not grab you, then you drop it and move on to the next book. Novels are often judged on their opening lines. It gets more scary if you do know why you are there. To wake up with a computer quizzing you and probing your tender bits and know nothing, not even your own name, is frightening. It starts off with the narrator waking up from something – somewhere – for some reason. Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir (Publisher: Ballantine Books hardcover 496 pages) Review
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