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At first rejecting the offer, Jamie is eventually forced to take it after all to make rent, as jobs are scarce in COVID-19-afflicted New York City.
Unfortunately, this event weakened the barrier between worlds, and Bella planting herself at the very location the event occurred is keeping the barrier from rehealing. Lee, the physician seeing to his vaccinations, that we are assured that this is a book written by John Scalzi. 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. Everyone has that favorite catchy song they like to put on, a guilty pleasure to turn to when life is getting you down and you need something to cheer you up and lighten the mood. I was expecting Jurassic Park (but with dragons) and that’s totally on me, because this is more of a scientific jargon-filled character driven story, which is tough when you don’t actually CARE about the characters (except the dragons/kaiju).
Maybe it's the cynical attitude, or the depression, or both, but at no point did I think about relaxing and having fun. Letta la versione kindle, è una storia assolutamente verosimile, che parte pre pandemia e si evolve con elementi fantascientifici assolutamente affascinanti.
Take all that you know about him and imagine what he would do within a Kaiju Preserve… Yeah, it was awesome and epic and an absolute riot!Scalzi didn’t flesh out his characters (human and monster alike) or include any high-adrenaline thrills. Not only does Jamie not have any sexual, romantic, or gender-based thoughts, but no one uses gendered pronouns around him, for him, asks him about his pronouns, looks at him with lust, makes any kind of question/comment about him, his romantic sexual life, his romantic sexual tastes, his appearance NOTHING.
Most of the plot is simply living in and learning about this strange world, but there’s a development late in the book that sets up a surprisingly dramatic conclusion. He makes an ungracious fall from a corporate job to a driver, and despite some conflicts ( I don’t like you. Unless they're stopped, the walls between our worlds could fall - and the consequences would be devastating. The author said it himself in the notes at the end, it's a popcorn movie of a book and I probably would have rated it a little higher but the quips were really really annoying.The story is sort of combination of Jurassic Park and Redshirts (not the latter’s meta parts, but the vibe of four new people being dropped together into a strange new environment and learning about it at the same time as the reader). And I mean Fun in the way that a Gojira named Bella is fun while a bunch of lilliputians tries to get Edward, another Gojira, to mate with the previously mentioned Bella. This book sucked me in right away and I laughed a couple times but I lost interest when shit hit the fan and didn't care at all about the plot.
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