Lucas Stoffel

Project Hail Mary Book Review: If you loved The Martian, buckle up, because Andy Weir didn't just write a follow-up — he evolved. Project Hail Mary drops you into the disoriented mind of Ryland Grace, a middle-school science teacher who wakes up on a spaceship with atrophied muscles, two very dead crewmates, and absolutely no memory of why he's hurtling through space. Turns out, the sun is dimming. An alien microorganism is feeding on its energy, and Earth has maybe a generat

The Impossible Fortress is set in 1987, and it absolutely nails it. Jason Rekulak wrote a coming-of-age novel about a fourteen-year-old boy named Billy Marvin whose initial goal — stealing a copy of Playboy from the local convenience store — accidentally leads him into a friendship with the store owner's daughter, Mary, who is the best computer programmer he's ever met. What follows is a novel about first love, betrayal, and the Commodore 64 that is far better than it has any

Fans of the Impossible Life is the quietest book on my shelf that hit the hardest. Kate Scelsa wrote a YA novel about three teenagers — Mira, Jeremy, and Sebby — whose friendship becomes the only safe place any of them have, and she did it without a single moment of false comfort.