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The Kaiju Preservation Society

By: John Scalzi
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
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The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first stand-alone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times best-selling Interdependency trilogy.

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on.

What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda, and they're in trouble.

It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society who's found their way to the alternate world. Others have, too. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.

©2022 John Scalzi (P)2021 Audible, Inc. Adventure First Contact Science Fiction Feel-Good Witty
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The story was pretty good, but I'm still unsure what in the fresh hell happened to the narration. Why. Did he have to YELL so MUCH, and talk like THIS, throughout the WHOLE NOVEL. It felt like the "sarcasm font" read out loud but with random words being capitalized instead of letters.

Yelling does not a good narration make...

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This is a fun story with Scalzi’s usual engaging humour and snappy plotting. However for me it was a bit overly chipper and the dialogue between the main characters was irritatingly flip, accentuated by the usually excellent WW’s completely over-carbonated performance (stop randomly yelling Will I can hear you!)

The Author’s Note at the end explains why this book different from his other works (which I really love.) if you’re coming to Scalzi for the first time, don’t start here but if you’re already a fan- it’s a solid, fun listen.

Fun but not fab

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A Very entertaining read but I found the characters can be a bit thin. Although Scalzi says in his afterward that this was always the intent. This was a light palette cleanser for him to write. I had a lot of fun with it.

Fun light read!

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I got this a little hesitantly in the end even though I'd been looking forward to it for a while. The main put off point was reviewer comments that Wil Wheaton was being 'shouty'. Not true folks. He does get comically excitable every so often, but it's entirely appropriate to the prose, and hats off to Wil for a great performance.
The story is instantly engaging, zero boring parts, and a great romp throughout - not slapstick - I mean you know, this is Scalzi. The story made me chuckle a few times but isn't an out and out comedy. Plenty of perfectly serious bits. Overall, it's a light-hearted bit of SF and I enjoyed every minute.
The little glimpse through the author's window at the end was nice too.

NOT shouty

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This audiobook is fun, intriguing, and just what you need if you want a light hearted story. Wil Wheaton narrates it excellently well, bringing out the light hearted nature, but giving gravity to the deeper moments.

Light, fun, intriguing

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