Reading this book felt like eating an ENORMOUS bucket of popcorn. It looks so promising! It's such a bold idea - it's going to be amazing! And it is... at first.

An exciting premise, smooth writing, cliffhangers at the end of many chapters. The protagonist is just bland enough to serve as a "self-insert", and that catchphrase... yeah, I laughed, a lot. It's a funny book, despite the adventurous goings-on.

This is not the perfect novel, however. Most of the characters sort of blended into each other for me and I forgot which one is the geologist, and which one the physicist. They're all witty and there's a LOT of banter between, well, everybody. The names of the American characters are so generic that I can't remember even one of them now.
This book made me laugh - the humor is very contemporary, and I wonder how funny people will find this book 10 or 15 years from now. For a sci-fi book, there is shockingly little social commentary, let alone criticism

What I did like a lot about this book is that it never actually describes the titular Kaiju. Very few words tell the reader what they can do, but the rest is - fortunately! - left to our imagination. A great move, in my opinion.

All in all a very entertaining ride, a lot to discover, and a funny book too. I can ignore the things it is lacking... this time around.