Still, I hate to say that it went a bit over the top for my personal taste. By weaving that into the cat-and-mouse game between the US and Russia, there was pretty tense at times. I could tell that Hadfield was writing about what he knew because the authenticity of the story was more than obvious. The heart of this review of The Apollo Murders is that I greatly enjoyed the concept and felt that it was very well written. After all, why would Hadfield write a novel about a space flight in which absolutely everything goes swimmingly? A Fascinating Premise

Of course, since there’s a book about it, that means that everything did not go smoothly. Still facing the Cold War, three astronauts were headed into space on the 18 th mission. The idea behind this novel – without spoiling it – is that the Apollo missions had continued. Any astronaut who was that cool had to have a great story in his head, right? When he announced that he was publishing a fiction book called The Apollo Murders, I knew it had to be on my list. In the first three days after he’d posted it on YouTube, it got over 10 million views, and I was at least five of them.įrom there, I kept up with what he had to share.

That said, I wouldn’t have seen a single one of them if it wasn’t for the fact that he brought his acoustic guitar into space with him and recorded a video of him singing his rendition of “Space Oddity” by David Bowie while he was up there. I admit that it appealed to me more because it was written by Chris Hadfield than because the premise sounded great – because I hadn’t even read the description by the time I’d decided I would get it! It had been years since I’d been interested in NASA or the International Space Station, but Hadfield changed that with his incredible documentation of his time there on social media.Īstronaut Chris Hadfield took the most incredible pictures from space that I’d ever seen, and he’d captioned them magnificently. This Apollo Murders review is the second on my list of books to read in 2022. The Apollo Murders Review (by Astronaut Chris Hadfield)

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