Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

46 reviews

mommarex1221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny hopeful lighthearted reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Fun! Fit right into the current media genre mash up that I've been enjoying this month. It has likeable characters who end up heroes, a true, greed fueled villian, enough scientific explanation to make it believable, and obviously the main attraction, giant f*cking kaijus. I'm not sure what else you'd want! The Kaiju Preservation Society, sounds like a cool name for a band. 😉

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Death

uranaishi's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Medical content, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Classism, Colonisation, Deadnaming, Grief, Homophobia, Transphobia, and War

shaunashares's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

purplepenning's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Animal death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, and Murder

Minor: Excrement

ladykatka's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Death, and Murder

ysra's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder