As a result, the story is action-packed and fast-paced, but Violet is a strange mix of pure competence and total passivity, always managing to come out on the winning side.

Yet when I heard about this book, a Jurassic Park esque tale, full of banter and mayhem, I was certain this would be right up my street. Any comparison to Jurassic Park applies only insofar as this is a story about humans living alongside huge, dangerous creatures. A story that hits all the beats and tropes you might think, and that's not a criticism: you read this book with the feelings you read a tropey romance, ie a knowing expectation of what will happen, plus gleeful anticipation for how you're going to get there. Turns out, these "pandas" are in mating trouble and not all humans want to preserve them and their world.I fully expected to plow through this book’s 258 pages in no time at all, so I was shocked to find it a chore to read. And I mean Fun in the way that a Gojira named Bella is fun while a bunch of lilliputians tries to get Edward, another Gojira, to mate with the previously mentioned Bella.

But for the most part, Mr Scalzi has held back any heavy messages or allegories in favor of providing his readers with just as much of a temporary escape as he’s created for his latest protagonist. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi is a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set on an alternate Earth – perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky and Michel Crichton's Jurassic Park.Setting aside that I could not get the chorus of The Kinks Village Green Society out of my head while I was reading it, this one is, maybe more than any other book I've read recently, exactly what it says on the label. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. the names for the people of ethnicieties other than American are inconsistent with the RL naming conventions of said ethnicity. Lee pointed to one of the last syringes in the longest tray—“in one in about two hundred fifty injections, the recipient feels the urge for, let’s just say, intense and homicidal violence.

It’s not until a trans-dimensional gateway in Iceland takes them to a surprisingly tropic jungle world that Jamie learns the truth – KPS stands for Kaiju Preservation Society, the animal rights they preserve are those of the kaiju that inspired any number of Japanese monster horrors, and they’ve effectively joined what’s quickly dubbed “the Foreign Legion for nerds”. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm, human-free world. John Scalzi has hit a home run with ‘The Kaiju Preservation Society’, an SF monster novel for people who’d rather be stuck naked in traffic than admit to watching a Japanese horror movie. We were looking at creating nuclear bombs and didn't think about how nuclear energy might mess with a multiverse.Yes, just roll with that) is light-hearted and very funny, full of present-day references and neverending quips and snark, almost a meme in book form. A legit Jurassic Park in outer space but one that hits so close to home with integrity, curiosity, treachery and greed but most of all, heart.