My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was a bit of a different book for me, the story follows astronaut Mark Watney as he and his teammates are on their mission to Mars. They are forced to evacuate due to a dust storm that could damage their only means of leaving the planet, and when Mark is hit by something from the storm and his spacesuit's life support readings fail, his teammates think he has been killed. He is not, however and ends up being left on the planet alone, with enough food for a short period, though not near enough to survive until the next mission to Mars. The beginning especially had quite a bit of technical mathematics as Mark figures out how much food he needs etc, and I honestly skimmed that part, but most of the story is very engaging as he figures out how to survive on Mars. I enjoyed how the story shared different points of view, Mark's story and also the mission control from earth as well as his teammates on their journey home as they deal with their guilt for having left a teammate behind. There was some rough language in the book, but it is fairly decent otherwise. I enjoyed following Mark's adventure with surviving on Mars.
I recieved a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
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