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There are a few scenes showing the characters encountering some dangerous creatures, but thanks to convenient “pheromone sprays” and fancy sci-fi weapons, the characters are able to keep them at bay and are never in actual peril. Most students die at the War College: during training sessions, at the hands of their classmates, or by the very dragons they hope to one day be paired with. 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. Loved many of the funny and touching moments, as well as hated the characters the author wanted me to.
Even though her mother is a general in Navarre’s army, 20-year-old Violet Sorrengail was raised by her father to follow his path as a scribe. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. They’re at the top of the evolutionary ladder here, but evolution definitely didn’t select for brains on this planet…” Okay, but why do we care? However, the way Dain constantly undermines Violet's abilities and his lack of character development make this an unconvincing storyline.I laughed immensely not only at all the pop-culture references, particularly the chosen names of the Kaiju, but also at the way the characters interacted with each other. 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).
It goes a long way toward shedding light on why it is the way it is--light, airy, insubstantial popcorn. Scalzi didn’t flesh out his characters (human and monster alike) or include any high-adrenaline thrills. A terrific mix of science fiction, laugh out loud humor and some really touching character development, not to mention it has Godzilla sized entities on another Earth that is brushing dangerously close to ours.
The characters were paper dolls that said annoying shit, the main baddie was incomprehensible, the final twist was resolved too quickly. 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.
Although Violet and her dragons continue to model extreme bravery, the novel feels repetitive and more than a little sloppy, leaving obvious questions about the world unanswered.
Any comparison to Jurassic Park applies only insofar as this is a story about humans living alongside huge, dangerous creatures.
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