Have you ever watched the trailer for a really cool looking movie and then thought to yourself, “Man, I really hope this is a book?” That was me in December 2024. When I went to see War of the Rohirrim in theaters, there was a preview for a movie called Mickey17. It had Robert Pattinson playing a quirky character with a weird voice (I was shook—the same kind of shook when I found out he also voiced the heron in The Boy and the Heron) in a science fiction story where Pattinson’s character did all the dangerous jobs on the spaceship, died, and got printed out so he could do them all again. I was disappointed at the rating, though, cause I totally would have gone to go see it. BUT I got excited again as soon as I saw it was based on the book Mickey7, by Edward Ashton! Now, as a disclaimer, because movies are a visual medium (and movies don’t much follow books these days), the content of the books movies are based on aren’t always at the same intensity. I figured the same could be said for Mickey7. I figured if I was wrong, I could just DNF it. Y’all. I absolutely loved it.
The Plotter's Apprentice 