A good book to read if you need a distraction or to be cheered up. The prose, plot, and characters are pleasant and it is cute in a quirky, righteous way. Would make a good blockbuster with a studio editor to punch it up.

However, KPS is shallow - intentionally! The author is not lying when he compares it to a pop song. Most of the scientists are interchangeable quip machines and obstacles barely inconvenience them. The villain is an arse devoid of any nuance while everyone else acts like if a company actually meant it when they say they're a family.

The world is fun though, and clearly had work put into it. I would have loved a Michael Crichton-style thriller set here, even if it was hard to accept how chill everyone was with being exposed to radiation blasts. 

What was unforgivably lacking in work was the kaiju description! I almost threw the book down when, at once point, instead of a lush description of a monster, the narration effectively goes "there he was". In the climax, some badass kaiju activity is flattened to 'indescribable'. As someone infinitely more interested in hulking leviathans than quirky, one-note millennials, this choice in focus was frustrating. It was also oddly slow, only kicking into high gear at the 66% mark.

Props for having the coolest character be French Canadien though.