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No "likable" asshole is as likeable as you think they are, doubly so if they're surrounded by more likeable assholes. 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.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. I believe what makes The Kaiju Presevation Society so accessible is that although the majority of the characters are scientific experts in their given field, Niamh with astrology, Kahurangi with chemistry, and Aparna with biology, having Jamie, a labourer whose main job title is to “lift things'', made those characters have to explain certain theories to him in simple ways. It's also grounded in the utter shitness that was 2020, and actually that was pretty cathartic to read too. Unless they’re stopped, the walls between our worlds could fall – and the consequences would be devastating.
Loved many of the funny and touching moments, as well as hated the characters the author wanted me to. As discreetly as possible, I adjusted my center of gravity so I was no longer listing ever so slightly starboard. Most of the book is concerned with just setting up the world and how it exists and then there's a tacked on ending to add some drama. Or maybe, that is just me unable to process concepts that do not support our human-centric thinking of the Universe and everything we do not understand, we tend to render impossible.
The bad guy pretty much has 'bad guy' tattooed on his face, which is also absolutely fine because wow is his depiction and fate satisfying. Fortunately, there's a direct and accompanying side effect of extreme lassitude, which keeps most people from acting on the urge. Violet Sorrengail did all the normal things one would do as a first-year student at Basgiath War College: made new friends, fell in love, and survived multiple assassination attempts. So much happens in here and I don't want to spoil a thing for anyone else so do yourself a big favor and read this book!I’m not going to delve too deeply into the plot, suffice to say that an unemployed sci-fi ‘expert’ finds himself transported to a parallel Earth in which humongous flying creatures are considered a species heading for extinction and therefore worthy of treatment that in this Earth are afforded to Giant Pandas. Still, desperate for anything that will help pay the bills, Jamie signs on, and the next thing he knows, he’s jetting off with his new team to Greenland where they’re told they’ll be doing fieldwork for the next little while. Only later Jamie finds out that we are talking Godzilla scale creatures, on a parallel Earth where everything is ready to kill you. Jamie obviously immediately signs up, but what he goes on to discover is far from a simple job, in fact, it’s mind-blowing.
But the benefits are fantastic, as long as you don't mind being completely out of touch with society for six months. In this overly long sequel, Violet, Xaden, and their dragons are determined to find a way to protect Navarre, despite the fact that the army and government hid the truth about these creatures.Throughout the whole affair you are forced to become more and more aware, that this is not a book written for an audience; it's written to stroke the author's own ego: see, here I am, famous - I am doing this, because I can; give me your money.
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