Godzilla by Greg Keyes

Godzilla by Greg Keyes

Godzilla has been around for a very long time. I can remember watching black and white Godzilla movies on the weekends growing up and there have been some recent blockbuster movies. My point is that there is actually a long and rich history of the king of monsters and while I didn’t know that history very well before reading this book, I feel like Keyes has ret-conned it together in a wonderful package for me. This is an amazing book with both human and monstrous villains, and human and monstrous heroes. And I enjoyed every page of it.

 

Keyes really has a gift for bringing the monsters to life and making them relatable even while they are still terrifying. And the humans just muck everything up so incredibly well, always doing the wrong thing, it seems, even when they are desperately trying to do what is right.

 

I may just have to watch the movie.