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The plot and the characters didn’t have a ton of depth, but that didn’t bother me – it wasn’t really needed for the type of story presented.
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. Secondary characters are ignored until a scene requires them to assist Violet or to be killed in the endless violence that plagues their school.Told with his trademark blend of humor and imagination, this is science fiction that provides exactly what it promised – giant monsters, banter, and a plot that packs some surprisingly thoughtful moments into all that. This is a tight, short tale that’s masterfully written to give you the scares, the chills and the laughs and all the feels.
The banter and dialogue were hilariously entertaining, the science was interesting and the book moved along at a nice pace.Then I looked at the other reviews and saw everyone throwing the word "fun" around, talking about how they had a good time reading it, how it would make for a great flight/beach read and stuff. Turns out, these "pandas" are in mating trouble and not all humans want to preserve them and their world. It won a 2023 Alex Award, the American Library Association's annual award recognizing the ten best adult books that appeal to teen readers.
Smart and thrillingly written, with enough banter to fill a studio’s worth of gag reels, all teetering just on the sharp edge of absurdity, and with a cast of misfit characters that the reader can’t help but fall in love with from page one, what is not to adore in this shaggy Godzilla story?
They’re at the top of the evolutionary ladder here, but evolution definitely didn’t select for brains on this planet…” Okay, but why do we care? It works as a stand-alone novel, and apparently that's what it is right now, but it's the kind of story that could easily turn into a series if successful. We really need to go all out to distinguish ourselves if we want to genuinely compete with Grubhub and Uber Eats and all the others, here in NYC and beyond. Go ahead and eat all you want, but avoid excessively fatty foods, since one of these is going to tell your body to purge fats in a way that absolutely challenges normal sphincter control. Scalzi is running on all cylinders, churning away through current modes of thinking and current events, and giving his characters escape routes, fantastic stories, and alternate ways of living through them.
Since all the insanity of 2020 hit (and 2021, and please god let 2022 be different), I've been wondering how it would affect artists and the art they make, and this is it right here.A terrific mix of science fiction, laugh out loud humor and some really touching character development, not to mention it has Godzilla sized entities on another Earth that is brushing dangerously close to ours.
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