I grew up with Godzilla, Gamera, King Kong, and the Sinbad movies. As cheesy as the rubber costumes or stop-action claymation looked, I loved them all. With Nemesis, Jeremy Robinson brings back the nostalgia without the goofy visuals I loved as a kid.
Project Nemesis is an origin story. It creates a new giant beast that will become legendary. In this book she (Nemesis is created from a girl’s DNA) is a scourge of man. She unleashes wrath and destruction from New Hampshire down the New England coast. Yet, as is finally revealed, her savagery has a sympathetic impetus.
When I read this book a few years ago I loved not only the kaiju factor, but throughout the series Jon Hudson is hilarious! While Jeffrey Kafer is a solid narrator, in my opinion he totally whiffed on Hudson. The sarcasm and snark was typically missing from Hudson’s lines, instead sounding either serious or angry most times. The overall storytelling was pretty good, but the loss of Hudson’s “voice,” from the way I envision it, took quite a bit from my enjoyment of the audiobook version.
READ this book! It is awesome. If you enjoy the audiobook version, reading it will make it even more memorable.