A review by ljesica
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

 

I’m in a place right now where I can’t read serious books.  So it’s romcoms and comedy scifi for me!  And this one fits for sure.

Jamie Gray gets fired from his job right as Covid hits.  He and his roommates are barely scraping by in their NYC apartment.  Jamie starts delivering for Fuudmuud and runs in to an old college friend.  Who offers him a job.  Mostly because he’s in a pinch, but also because of Jamie’s love of scifi.  They’ll be saving large animals and the pay is fantastic.  Jamie can’t sign up soon enough.

He deploys on his first mission.  And is incredibly surprised  to find himself on a different earth in a different dimension.  The walls between our universes have been thinned in certain places and they are able to cross over to try to save the Kaiju.  Somewhere between mountains and dragons, the kaiju are huge and fierce.  Oh, and also, nuclear.

This one has a ton of classic Scalzi one liners that made me laugh out loud.  As usual, his books are not in any way life changing, but they certainly are fun.