It’s a B-rate “movie”
read at its best, but it is a fun,
fast read if all you want is monsters, weapons and YaHoo/Gung Ho for humanity!
As a virgin of Creature
Feature books I really enjoyed the fantastic description of the beasts. Rapid and
hungry for human flesh. Smaller “dogs” and huge “mothers”. I
think another review calls it “Pacific Rim meets Starship Troopers”!! and yes that’s
exactly what it is.
The opening lines were
brilliant and I found Commander Jorgs death to be amazing in its grossness! And
it just goes on from there really.
The history of how the Earth
fell and how the Kaiju rose is told succinctly within a few lines. The premise is that Pacifica Base has fallen leaving
just one strong hold of humanity left. The last remaining Governor and Minister
of War set about trying to find the possibly mythical OverMind, alleged to be
the hive mind of the Kaiju.
With his superdooper
new “DogKiller” (that’s the little kaiju!) amour, which has some splendidly fun
weapons and abilities Ryan West sets out with his battalion to find this place
and destroy it.
Basically just monsters
wreaking havoc, and humans trying to fight back! There is no character growth
or development but they do have humour and as most people die anyway and it
races through the story you don’t have time to get to know them! Which is a shame really as I thought the book
could have been extensively extended and more emphasis put on the characters,
their relationships and back history and then maybe I would have routed for
them more than the Kaiju!
Very militarized in some
of its prose yet easily accessible as well described and not laden down with
technicalities. It is a bit gung ho and “into battle we ride” type fodder too
but that goes along with the story really well.
There are some really
obvious grammar and spelling errors, especially from the middle to the end of
the story, and a good editor/beta reader would have picked these up – just because
its B rate doesn’t mean it should be published in that state.
Overall I did enjoy the
read, it was an afternoon of fun, but it is left open for a sequel I just think
the authors should clean this one up, even extend it a little and then maybe it
would make a great series.
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