I’ve enjoyed the heck out of the “Project” books. They’re not exactly Shakespeare, but they’re fun & funny, have lots of action, realistic dialogue, fairly creative monsters, & interesting characters that rise above the cardboard level, especially for a Kaiju book. The narrator does a great job of reading, giving the various characters distinctive (but not overdone) voices, & has good pacing on the non-dialogue sections…tho in this installment of the series, for some reason he sounds more robotic, as if the producers told him to ‘be more serious’ or something. It’s not drastic, but different from “Maigo” & “Pr 731.”
However, I do really, really wish that Robinson, or his editor(s), or SOMEbody would actually pay attention to the books they’re creating; Maigo is said to be at least 2 different ages (10, 13) when her murder takes place. At one point John is thinking about his parents & mentions that his father died 5 years before his mother. Then, not too much later, he’s wondering where his father is & contemplating tracking him down & seeing what he’s doing. I realize that John is a paranormal investigator & this could be a sly way of saying he’s going to track down where his DEAD father went in the afterlife, but (given other mistakes) I’m pretty sure it’s just a copy-editing/inattention screw up. It’s annoying.