About the Book
Title: The Kaiju Preservation Society
Author: John Scalzi
Series: none
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 264
Edition Read: Kindle eBook
Dates Read: December 18 – 26, 2024
Blurb: When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization.” Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on.
What Tom doesn’t tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world. They’re the universe’s largest and most dangerous panda and they’re in trouble.
It’s not just the Kaiju Preservation Society that’s found its way to the alternate world. Others have, too–and their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.
Review
Another fun read from John Scalzi. I shouldn’t be surprised at this point.
One of the things I enjoy most about his writing is the world building, even if the world is *technically* our own. He did this in Starter Villains with the headquarters, spy cats and dolphins. For Kaiju, it’s a different dimension, still on Earth. You enter through a base in Greenland and come out into a jungle where literally EVERYTHING wants to kill you. The world is as much a character in the story as the characters themselves, and I love when authors do that.
Speaking of the characters. I really liked Jamie a lot. Like a lot of Scalzi’s books, this is an everyday, ordinary person who is just trying to survive a crazy rollercoaster of events, and does so with slightly sarcastic wit. My main complaint is that the bad guy of the book (who I will not disclose here due to spoilers) is kind of obvious. It was clear that there was supposed to be some big reveal, but it wasn’t all that surprising at all. Kind of a textbook villain, including an evil monologue at the end.
Still, this was a short, fun read. I’m looking forward to listening to the audio book in a couple of months on a roadtrip – Wil Wheaton is narrating, and you know how much I enjoy him!
GoodReads rating: 4 stars
Categories: Books I've Read
Life With No Plot 
This one is on my Kindle TBR – I am yet to read a Scalzi book! Soon (I keep telling myself)!
He’s a really fun author.