Of course.... they don't tell you what the actual job is until after you sign the contract and paperwork and who doesn't love a little secrecy? Jamie finds out after the fact that he signed up to be a grunt in helping preserve Kaiju on a different Earth - one that has no human life on it whatsoever. Most of the people who are part of the team are only there for about 3 years before they retire and continue to live their "boring" lives. An interesting fact that John Scalzi used in this story is that the Kaiju are their own power sources of nuclear reactors. Once they hit puberty, there are two things that can happen - their body is able to regulate the power that they give off or they basically explode and the Kaiju in the area go, feed off the energy and try to take the power for themselves.
I'd like to say that I pretty much devoured the book in two days while I was off work because the pandemic was still very relevant to some of the studies we were doing in school. The pandemic was still a very large factor to how some of the community behaved at my local libraries. I would honestly love to reread this for a summer program or even own a copy of this book - there's plenty of good pop culture references, plenty of humor for adults and a couple of interesting twists and turns. When I finished reading this book, I immediately went to three of my coworkers and said, "You have to read this - this is right up your alley."
