The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

Wil also brings his flavor and personality to the story. I'm listening with a permanent smile on my faceĪ fast-paced funny story with current reference and wild imagination, classic John. If you like him, you'll like him in this. Wheton does the same job he always does as narrator. This might be the last time I pay for one of your books.

Not funny enough to offset the rest of it, at least not for me. And, most of the rest of the book is a bunch of generic characters bantering about not very much. Even when I agree with the politics and judgments, it just reminds me of crappy things that I hate. It's a book about giant monsters, and we spend half of it complaining about pandemics, presidents, and how billionairs are crappy people. You've probably seen all the rest a thousand times. After you learn what the Kaiju are and how they operate there isn't much left which is particularly interesting or original. This isn't Red Shirts or Agent to the Stars. Then, after doing his best to drain all the fun out of Kaiju by injecting it with miserable current events, the story was just ok.

Now I'm paying to read about it happening to fictional characters. I got a bunch of talk about covid, identity politics, actual politics, vaccination, masks, judgment about vaccination and masks, elections, economic issues surrounding covid, and more covid. I want a good story that let's me escape from the crushing reality that is post 2020 life. I pre-orderd this book the instant I saw it, then I patiently waited for the actual release. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.Īnswer: A big old dose of reality and politics. It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society who's found their way to the alternate world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda, and they're in trouble. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”.

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first stand-alone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times best-selling Interdependency trilogy.

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi