The Kaiju Preservation Society

Hacía tiempo que no leía algo divertido de verdad. KPS es una novela muy entretenida, como ver una película, donde el humor es constante y las referencias a cultura pop abundantes. Se lee rápido y se agradece que sea una historia cerrada, aunque creo que no me importaría volver a este universo de científicos que se matan por cuidar con mimo de monstruos como edificios.

Voy a seguir leyendo alguna novela más de Scalzi antes de pasar a otra cosa.

It was a fun read with some really good moments. While I liked the background, the current events in the book felt a bit too forced. I also wanted to learn a lot more about the kaiju and their world.

Still, it was very entertaining and after having read a lot of trilogies and series in the past, it was refreshing to read a stand-alone book.

This is another entertaining Covid 'time period' novel. It is about an interesting parallel universe; a tale designed to help both the author and reader find a semblance of normalcy after years of pandemic. By the way, this is a good story as well.

I read this a couple of days ago and, like every other Scalzi novel I’ve read, I remember mildly enjoying it but already forgotten most of it. I think the problem is that Scalzi isn’t a very visual or emotional writer and mostly tells his stories through snappy dialogue. Which he’s good at, but not in a way that sticks with me

It was a fun book. I don't think its his best book, which to me is Androids Dream, Old Mans War, or Agent to the stars. But its a fun book.

It defiantly has a bit of a Cory Doctorow feel, with the random modern technology thrown in. Plex. Discord. NFC. Local Wifi. Etc. Not a bad thing, just not what I really expected so much.

The whole thing about the first person narrator having no gender at all was really interesting. A couple places felt off, like the character had a gender in the first draft, but only like two places. Using Jaime instead of a pronoun in some locations felt awkward, but rarely and easy to overlook.

I would absolutely recommend to other people, especially since I essentially read it in one day.

This is written and set in late 2020. Much like Netflix' Glass Onion, it uses COVID in the backdrop, and then gets onto its main bit. This is about as much COVID as I want in a book.

Equally you get the feeling that Scalzi has a lot to say about US politics and is resisting only dropping a few things before getting back to his main hobby of dropping his favourite nerds in as backing mentions (or ship names in Old Man's War).

This was exactly the right amount of silly for me, I didn't quite get into Redshirts. It gets a bit close when they discuss how kaiju are tropes but then follows with a Peter-Hamilton-level exposition dump about how the pretend science works.

Who cares, there are kaiju, and also a bunch of characters who respect others' chosen pronouns. It's like a much snarkier Becky Chambers book.

The most Okay book I've read this year. It's fine. It's very much a novel for your geeky boyfriend that doesn't really get into reading. The audiobook is narrated by Will Wheaton. If that's exciting to you, you'll like the book. If that makes you sign and have Ready Player One flashbacks, maybe skip this one.

Is this a fun ride with lots of satisfaction, a good story and a quick pace. Definitely. Is this a good book? No, not really. Scalzi is an amazing storyteller, but not a particularly good writer. (Having said that, he is far better than he used to be, and he's even commented on problems with his writing that he has tried to correct.) I started this as a light vacation read and it performed exactly as expected.

This is a fun read. The author wrote it as an antidote for dark times and succeeded, much as we all might wish 2020 hadn’t happened.

This book is a bop and I loved it. I read it as an ebook, but spent the whole time imagining Em Grosland narrating it. (I have a love-hate relationship with Audible Exclusives and also with Wil Wheaton as a narrator.)

This is 100% pop fiction, but enjoyed every moment of it. Reminded me of how much I enjoyed Redshirts. Well written and fantastically fun.

This was somewhat fun, but somewhat tedious. After reading the afterword, I got the impression that the idea for the book came to the author and he jumped on it, but maybe the idea didn't include an intricate plot because this book meanders. Not only does the author spend a lot of time setting up the premise/locale, but the characters repeat themselves to the point of distraction. It also took until 70% for the main action to happen and then of course it was resolved pretty quickly. Which is not to say I didn't like this, I did, and would be interested in more books set in the same world, even with less focus on the kaiju.

Fun and entertaining, as I would expect from Scalzi, but it doesn’t really do anything much we haven’t seen before. I appreciated the sciency and unique take on Kaiju biology. I also very much enjoyed the easy rapport of the friendships developed in the story. Still, the lack of development of the genre leaves me disappointed. I was hoping for more. At least it was amusing.

If snarky, self-aware dialog and giant alien monsters in alternate dimensions are your thing, this is your book. It's got humor (of course), adventure, and bad guys you really want to punch in the face.

It's nice to have some moral clarity in a story, and also giant monsters who breath nuclear fire.