Recensioni e commenti

Premetto che è il primo dei libri di questa serie che leggo (anche se è il quarto) ma l'ho trovato decisamente migliore dell'altro libro che ho letto quest'anno di questo autore (La mappa del destino) - un romanzo scorrevole, con una idea che mi ha catturato subito e una costruzione intrigante, che riesce a condurre anche a un finale apprezzabile.
Ho apprezzato anche il personaggio principale (tanto da volere a questo punto recuperare le opere precedenti) e mi sento assolutamente di consigliarlo a chi ama questo tipo di libri.

Impressionante. Poche volte mi era capitato di NON volere più andare avanti a leggere un libro perché la vicenda descritta mi causava troppa angoscia come in questo caso. Ma qui le vicende della famiglia Moore (in realtà di tutta una comunità rurale), sconvolte dall'arrivo di una SINGOLA persona, sono un crescendo così terribilmente plausibile e diretto da diventare in fretta fin troppo coinvolgente.
I personaggi, i dialoghi, i tempi narrativi, tutto è davvero perfetto per veicolare la storia.
Davvero consigliato.

Davvero molto bello - come sempre una parte del contenuto di questo libro l'avevo già visto in rete - ma non ad esempio l'ultima parte - sulla serie Netflix - che è lunga e complessa.
Godibilissimo

Weir wrote three books - each one more complex and stunning than the previous one. This Project Hail Mary is one of those science-fiction novels that makes you fell ignorant and needs a lot of attention to read it - but it's completely worth it. Best book of this kind - in my humble opinion. Maybe not compelling as the first one or adventurous like the secondo one, but great, intriguing, clever, and enlightening. The only thing I liked a little less is the tune of the main character while dealing with the de-facto leader of the world - even if that fits and works.
I guess I'll suggest (or gift) this book to a lot of people

A good novel - maybe even a great one - but in this book Tom Wood's Victor is not in his usual frame of mind most of the time - he's much more like Jack Reacher, just to give you a reference - and I can't say I didn't mind that.
Book's still more than worthy - the story's intriguing and I loved characters, rhythm, and scenes - and I'm not here to criticize author choices in absolute terms - simply it was odd and a bit unsettling - I mean, at the end of the day, I was just expecting maybe a similar story, but with a different motive.
Anyway now I'm curious to see where do we go from here. Even if I'm sure that I'll buy in advance next Victor's books nevertheless.

3.5 stars - the overall idea is good - but I didn't like so much characters and style. I don't mean they're necessarily bad - but both failed to appeal as much as I think they should, considering the kind of story Spare Room portraits, and the nice crescendo it has.
A good book, not the best one I've read in the last few months.

It's hard to criticize a 300-page book I've read in two sessions - I mean, of course, I've loved it - King's style is almost perfect, characters are vivid and great, NY background, pop culture references, everything rocks, but the story at the end of the day is "just" good - and it's surely, well, "short".
The plot, despite the fact it starts with a kid who can see ghosts (yes - like in Bruce Willis movie, as the main character reminds us), is able to be touching and scary - and there, the scary parts, we can feel echoes of elements more than solid and outside The Sixth Sense scope - so I can't really complain. But I hoped for a stronger novel, or for a wider one.

An impressive sci-fi novel - with a superb opening, a great progression, and a solid-enough finale.
It may have echoes of other works but it's still original and page-turning and, well, I loved its time-related ideas and their consequences.

Mixed feeling - for a super book. Even if it's a completely different novel compared to the first one, it's almost equally gripping and compelling, full of great and realistic characters (most of them, with a huge dark side) and it has chapters that can be full of detailed descriptions and fast-paced at the same time. A really page-turning book.
My only complaint is for the finale, that just "perfect" as structure, situations, and explanations but that could not convince me enough for little details. I mean, rock-solid, but not so emotionally satisfying.
Anyway, I mean that as a really small note for such a great voyage that's absolutely worth the reading time.

A really GREAT book. A classic horror one - with a serious female hero (Noemí Taboada, a young socialite girl) in a "hunted" isolated mansion called High Place, near an English cemetery and a old closed silver mine. Loved it, since page 1. And sorry when I finished it.
I'll surely keep track of this author.

Just a bit shy of five starts - but a great new Jack Reacher's adventure with a lot of intriguing characters, odd and complex situations, and plot twists. Maybe - as a whole - a bit more similar to the first ones than to the last ones (mainly as events sequence) but if this is what the two authors can do together I'm surely happy.