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The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

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The Kaiju Preservation Society
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)

Ryan Morris's review

Aug 07, 2022

it was ok

bookshelves: dnf, author-has-their-head-up-their-ass, but-damn-that-foreign-cover, i-had-to-quit, library-must-haves, monsters, novels, points-for-great-title, promising-start, sci-fi, too-quirky-for-its-own-good, undeserved-success

A big "Meh, I'll pass" for this one. Aside from the initially-amusing chapter-and-a-half of set-up, the next ~60 pages were just the characters explaining the How's and the Why's of this world with all-too-convenient, but not very realistically presented info dumps. The humour got tiresome VERY QUICKLY ("I lift things") and it just gave me an icky "I can write anything and have it be a bestseller because I can" sort of feeling.
I will say that the concept was cool, and it is definitely a book I'll very easily be able to recommend and throw at readers in the library, it just was not the book for me.

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