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The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

30 reviews

caseythereader's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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schnaucl's review against another edition

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adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I enjoyed it. It was a fun popcorn book.

There was some nice homages to classic science-fictions stories.

There was some attention paid to the science of the circumstances and some nice hand waiving with the person explaining things saying I'm not a scientist, you'll need to ask a scientist about that for the harder questions.

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ladythana's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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uranaishi's review against another edition

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adventurous funny hopeful informative lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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purplepenning's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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ladykatka's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I admit I didn't know anything about this book when I picked it up I didn't even know what a Kaiju was, and the only picked it up to read it because it actually fit in one of the challenge categories for the popsugar reading challenge.

That being said I really enjoyed this book a lot. It is what I refer to as a junk food book it's easy it's convenient and it becomes your guilty pleasure. It's definitely not a highbrow book you're not going to learn anything and it's definitely not going to make you think but it is just a fun read. It becomes a little predictable near the end especially once you find out what the conflict is but that doesn't stop you from enjoying what happens. The best part about this book is probably the conversations between the characters because not only do they feel natural they're quite amusing.

Being Canadian I also enjoyed the little bits about Canada that were in the book. Unless it's by a Canadian author I always feel like Canada gets overlooked especially when it comes to sci-fi, so this was a really nice treat.

Overall predictable but fun.

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