A review by babaroga
Interstellar: The Official Movie Novelization by Greg Keyes

5.0

This was my first time reading a novelization of a movie so I wasn't sure what to expect. Interstellar is my favorite movie of all time and I was a bit reluctant to pick this up cause oh my god, how could anything compare to the perfection of that movie? But I decided to go into this book with an open mind cause it was a birthday gift from a friend and I figured I owed her that much, at least. It turned out to be a really enjoyable read, almost as thrilling as the movie itself. I got new insight into characters, the science was much better explained than in the movie (or at least easier to follow) and I think this book fixed one issue the movie has that really bothered me and that's Cooper's relationship with his son. Obviously I know Cooper loves his son but he's never mentioned in the movie as much as his daughter is (the reason for that is because she's much more involved in the plot of the movie than he is) and that kinda gives an impression that Cooper doesn't care about his son as much (again, I know that was never the movie's intention but that's how it came across to a lot of people). Here we see and hear Cooper thinking and worrying about his son Tom, as much as he does about his daughter Murphy and we even learn that Tom died two decades before Cooper was found which personally gave me a closure to his story I wasn't even aware I needed. All in all, I would recommend this book to anyone who likes this movie and even to those who don't. Who knows, maybe it could help them connect to this beautiful story in ways the movie couldn't.