This was a weird book. A book about the moon turning to cheese would be weird. And after reading the acknowledgement, I found that John considers this as a loosely formed third and final book in the trilogy comprising of The Kaiju preservation society and Starter Villain.

Starter Villain coincidently was the last Scalzi book I had read. I had loved that book. It was crisp, with one thing leading to the other. The tick-tock of cause and effect in full flow.

This book did not have that.

I guess I was interested in knowing the how or why of the moon turning to cheese. But John usually does not write these idea driven books. John’s books are fun.

The book starts slow, with the moon turning to cheese and then describes different people and character dealing with it.

It did not seem coherent to me. The stories were fun, some more so than others. I felt good about the brother story and the story of the writer toward the end, but it did not feel like something was happening. We were just looking at the thing from different perspectives.

I liked, but I guess I was expecting to love it.