Wes Parker

Interesting as a passion project, but definitely not as good as I expected.

The book definitely takes inspiration from other works that write about apocalyptic scenarios, mostly World War Z. Even though the subject is refreshing (I'd take Kaiju over Zombie literature almost every day) it still reads very amateurish. Several sections of the book read like the author was trying to convince us that he did his homework and researched in depth. The result is that they read more like encyclopedic articles and not like an enjoyable work of fiction.

The fictional interviews with Kaiju survivors seem a bit bloated and I believe the book could do without them. This book is supposedly a survival guide for a universe where Kaiju attack humans regularly; it doesn't make sense (in-universe) to load a survival guide with extraneous information. There's also the fact that those accounts are very samey (person encounters monster and, despite the odds, survives) and don't tell us much about the Kaiju-infested world at large. Compare with the fictional interviews in World War Z, where the characters themselves are a window into how the world had evolved post-zombies.

The Kindle edition that I bought is also peppered with typos. I marked at least five instances of "more then" instead of "more than". I don't know whose fault is this, but I believe it to be a major fault for a commercial release.… (plus d'informations)