"She could walk into any hell and come back unscathed." Rita. Vrataski. They call her crazy. They call her a badass. They call her a lot of names. Angel of Death. Mad Wargarita. Full Metal Bitch. Few know the truth. That she's all of those things. And more. And less. Even fewer know the reason why. Keiji Kiriya is about to join their ranks.This is the story of two ordinary people forced to do the extraordinary; save the human race from an alien invasion. We meet Keiji, a green Japanese recrui

Aliens combat an Earth force made up of Japanese, American and other nations in All You Need is Kill. The Japanese soldier is caught in a Groundhog Day nightmare of kill, be killed, sleep, and repeat. He doesn't know what is happening to him until he meets an American soldier who is also caught in a time loop.Together they can defeat the aliens, but they have to solve the puzzle in time. A quick read with an interesting premise.

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 Mimic attack.I’ve had my eye on All You Need is Kill for some time now. When I saw that the book is being adapted into a film, I thought that now is as good a time as any to read it. And I’m glad I did,...

Wow what a rush this book is. From start to finish this book is non-stop. In a world slowly being overrun by monstrous creatures known as Mimics the United Defense Force fights back. This is Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers with a touch of Mechwarrior. Keiji Kiriya is new recruit about to enter his first battle only to get killed. Then wake up the previous day. And so the cycle goes and over "time" Keiji learns more about the enemy and how to fight it, especially by watching the world's gre...

20.0% "Groundhog day mixed with Starship Troopers. Enjoying it more than I thought I would. I like the Full Metal Bitch. She's not what you think."65.0% "Getting a little restless with Full Metal B*tch's backstory. I'm so ADD."83.0% "They're drinking coffee."It's ok. I was more enamored with the beginning than anything else. It'll be interesting to see how the Tom Cruise movie works out. Not hard sf. Only 200 pages though, which is good for me. I think the illustrations are missing, judging b...

"That's the thing with books. Half the time the author doesn't know what the hell he's writing about - especially not those war novelists." All You Need Is Kill is a military science fiction novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka and which follows the tradition of western science fiction works such as The Forever War by Joe Halderman. However, All You Need Is Kill has its own blend of adrenaline and fury that works to convey the themes of the novel wonderfully, even as a translation. That is the mark o

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, since on Japan, the Manga culture is quite spread and even there are mangas for all tastes, genders and ages. And I must say that the topic and story of this novel could fit quite easily in a manga forma...

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 loves, a sweet librarian, won't even look him in the eye, and the way things are now the army seems like his only viable option. Training has turned him into a hard-bodied soldier, but when it comes to

DNF at 23%► Because ► And becauseNow that's what I call an in-depth review. But that's all you'll get. Because I have no time for this. And because that's how little I care about this story. And I won't even bother rating this. That's how little I care about this story. I said that already, didn't I? Oh well.

I love Groundhog Day movie, especially how the character grew from hopeless person into a great character that proficient using the time loops. so, when I realized the premise in this book is time looping mixed with military SF, I am sold. When Apple, my GR friend, recommended me this book, I have never heard about Japanese light novel format. (Later I learned that It was basically another name of shorter novel, or novella). So it was an exotic recommendation: a fiction from a Japanese author,

So what do you get when you mix Groundhog Day, a war manga, and Tony Stark's suit of armor he made in a cave? You get All You Need Is Kill. Keiji Kiriya is stuck in a loop fighting aliens to the death...well to his death. Keiji has died during each of his 158 tries to get out of the loop. Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day had it way easier than Keiji Kiriya.For me All You Need Is Kill is a book with an interesting concept that falls short once Rita Vrataski gets her own point of view. I d...

All You Need is Kill is a standalone science fiction novel originally published in Japan. It’s very short and fast-paced, and I enjoyed it quite a lot. It made a great change of pace from the past several books I’ve read.This is a Groundhog Day type of story, only with war instead of romance. (For those whose ignorance of popular movies rivals my own, I mean to say that this is a time loop type story.) Also, unlike Groundhog Day, it actually explains the cause of the time loop and manages to do

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 elements create unfamiliar alien scenery, which needs discovering and an adventurous spirit to experiment with the unknown.Science fiction is as wide as the universe it explores, virtually endless and whil...

This book is a great read. I watched the movie, "Edge of Tomorrow" first, so read this book with that perspective.I have to say, the book is fast paced, introspective, and very in the moment. I felt that I could understand the feelings of the characters much better through this novel than I could through the movie.Whereas the movie focused on the war, the book focused on the individuals and how they dealt with their situation. The movie was a singular event, the book was a continuum of events.

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 attempts to progress future with the knowledge he’s previously learnt from the last loop.It’s been so long since I’d watched the Cruise movie adaptation, but I felt that even though the basic premise was sim...

War. Terrible war. Humans vs a race of aliens called Mimics. It's been going on for years now and it seems to go forever - with the odds for humanity growing slimmer with each day that passes. This is the world in which Keiji Kiriya, a Japanese recruit, lives.Today is gonna be his first battle, and to make him feel even worse, he gets injured. I'm gonna die on a fucking battlefield. On some godforsaken island with no friends, no family, no girlfriend. In pain, in fear, covered in my own shit b...

Perhaps I'm doing a bit of the heavy lifting here, but I thought this was a searing, sardonic look at the atrocity of war and the horror of PTSD. Also there were mech suits, kaiju aliens, and battle glaives!CONTENT WARNING: (no actual spoilers, just a list of topics) (view spoiler)[ graphic violence, war, racism, depiction of mental illness, loss of a loved one. (hide spoiler)]Things to love:-The tone. This translation was excellent. It read seamlessly, and got a lot of humor and sarcasm in the...

For some reason this Tom Cruise movie was a blockbuster bust, but it was because of the excellent movie that I wanted to delve into this concept a bit more. After picking up the book, it's clear almost immediately that the film whitewashed the book and that destroys one of the very simple yet profound themes of this book, which I'll get to in a sec.Keiji Kiriya is a simple Japanese soldier who finds himself in a time loop, experiencing the same couple days and deaths over and over only to wake u...

Edge of Tomorrow was GREAT!! This was translated from a 2004 Japanese light novel called All You Need Is Kill 🤨 In 2014, it was made into a Hollywood movie starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. The book isn't the same as the movie and has a different ending. BOTH are very good.Yes, it's full of violence. A lot of killing and deaths, BUT they were between mankind and extraterrestrials (Mimics). The book gives you back stories of the main characters; Rita Vrataski (Angel of Death /Full Metal Bitch)...

It’s 2.5 stars rounded down for its ridiculously rushed and unsatisfying last third. Until then, I was mostly along for the ride, willing to forgive its casual sexism and shallow approach to the anxieties of soldiers who face their own imminent demise, because I hoped that Sakurazaka was playing a long game, that he would peel back the layers and reveal a beating heart underneath all the artifice. But no, that didn’t happen. Very disappointing.