Edge of Tomorrow (Movie Tie-in Edition)

I knew about this novel due that it's the basis for the incoming movie Edge of Tomorrow and I am truly glad that I was able to read the original Japanese novel before of watching the movie. The novel itself is something odd in the Japanese literature culture, since it's a prose novel. I say this, sin......more

War is hell. The Mimics and the humans have been fighting for decades now, with no end in sight. Relentless, innumerable, and nearly unstoppable, the Mimics keep coming in waves. They've turned most of the world into a desert and killed millions of people. Keiji Kiriya is just a grunt. The woman he lo......more

As a kid, when I’d first laid eyes on those guns, I thought they were the coolest things I’d ever seen. The black lacquer finish of their steel instilled an unreasonable sense of confidence in me. Now that I’d seen real battle, I knew with cool certainty that weapons like these could never repel a Mi......more

I’ve only recently found out that the 2014 fun action adventure movie ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ was based on this 2004 Japanese Sci-Fi light read. Young recruit Keiji Kiriya soon discovers that he’s caught in a time loop against the alien ‘Mimics’, after each death he awakes on the eve of battle and attempt......more

I had a very hard time starting this review. There is much to say and reflect upon, yet “All You Need is Kill” is unlike most novels the American and the European audience has had experience with. Prose, length, storytelling, characterization, internals and general take on the genre; all these eleme......more