Book Review: All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka

All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Time travel is a tricky business and when you're talking about a time loop where a character is destined to repeat the same day again and again, it gets even trickier.

This was a short book and it offered all it had to offer in the span of 150 or so pages. Any more than that, and things would've started to get boring. I liked many things in this book, the science of the jackets, the explanation of how the alien Mimics attack the Earth and how the world tried to fight back. There were several touching moments in the book, the interactions between the primary characters, the beautiful chapter about coffee, the end was pretty brilliant too.

But that said, the only thing I wanted more of was the battle scenes. There are several, but they seem to get over in a flash. When you're talking about super-powered armor that can completely obliterate the enemy, there should be some explosive over-the-top action.

I keep wondering how Matthew Reilly would've tackled the same novel. There would have been explosions, close calls with death, daring escapes and the world almost ending in the aftermath.

That said, it's a good book if you wanna spend a few days with extremely believable characters.

Regular gripe: no overpowering villain in the book.


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