This was an awful lot of fun - had to get that out there right away!  This book was like candy; I devoured it in a day.

Jamie has a good job but then the pandemic hit and her a$$hole boss let her go.  With businesses closing everywhere, the only job she could find was delivering food.  But while she's pretty much keeping it all together, her two roommates aren't so fortunate.  With the threat of her roommates leaving, Jamie is feeling pretty desperate so when one of her regular customers invites her to apply for a job, she isn't feeling particularly picky. 

But no one wants to actually tell her what the job is. They ask the most peculiar questions like did she have any experience working with large animals, or how did she handle heat and humidity, and then - was she familiar with the science fiction genre…  But, not picky as I said, so she took the job with a job description of "lifting things."  After a very intense medical examination which included lots and lots of vaccinations, Jamie found herself on a plane to Greenland with several other vaguely confused new hires.  But it wasn't until they landed at an abandoned secret nuclear base and walked through a door into a…jungle for Jamie to figure out this job wasn't anything she could have imagined.  Nor could she have imagined the strange fauna in this alternate earth; real life dragons or maybe real godzillas called Kaiju and it was now her job to help preserve them.

I found myself enjoying the dialogue and worldbuilding so much I forgot there had to be a crisis so I was rather gobsmacked when it came.  Of course, there had to be a bad guy.  And, of course, it had to be a jerkwad from Jamie's past.  And, of course, it was all about the money and power.  And, of course, the bad guys never understood the real nature of the Kaiju and were, therefore, unprepared for the hell they unleased.  (Yep, that sounded just like the book…)  Because, you see…the Kaiju were walking nuclear reactors.

The author related in the note at the end that he wrote this in just two months.  I believe it.  The dialogue rips along so fast and funny, I could imagine him coming up with it during a party.  I snorted several times in the first fifty pages; there was probably several out-loud chuckles at which point my other half wanted to know what the heck I was reading.  Seriously…read this book.  It's just ten kinds of fun.  ~~ Catherine Book

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