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This was an entertaining read that kept me up all night. In the entirety of the book, there was only one thing that I was able to predict and it was in the first part of the book. The rest of the book kept me engaged because I honestly didn't know what to expect next. We only get to read the book from the main character's perspective so we only know what he knows. Turns out, he's out of the loop on a lot of things.

In a previous book by this author, Mogworld, I enjoyed his playing around with words. And this book is similar. Because mathematics created Quantunneling, and Quantunneling put the space pilots out of business, mathematical terms became dirty words. As a result, this is a very clean book with only one or two dirty phrases. After the first couple of chapters, hearing someone referred to as a "bracket" no longer seems out of place. It's a rather natural linguistic turn that helps to create and sell the world.

I really don't think there was anything in this book that I didn't like. Yahtzee covers a lot of fictional and science fictional tropes within this satire, but they feel like they are a natural part of the world. From Angelo, a space pilot who'd gone native on another world until the princess dumped him, to evil corporate overlords with spoiled children. This book takes place outside of our world, but everything that Yahtzee put into it felt like a natural addition. Nothing was added or mentioned for no purpose and nothing felt out of place. And I STILL couldn't predict anything!

The ending for this book wasn't the grand boss battle that I usually like for my sci-fi books. Instead, I got an ending that I didn't know I wanted until I got it. It was a great way to end the book and leave me with with a satisfied smile.

So, if you are at all interested in satirical sci-fi novels, I highly recommend you pick this up. Yahtzee has an amazing sense of humor that is complimented by his intelligent story telling. I greatly enjoyed this book and am very glad that I bought it. I will be picking up more of Yahtzee's books.


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Will Save the Galaxy for Food Yahtzee Croshaw EM Gist Books Reviews

One of Croshaw's better books. There were a lot of moments in the early and mid parts of the book where I was legitimately laughing out loud.

It also contains some of the more (initially) interesting characters in the author's works.I was honestly kept reading for most of it in equal parts wanting to get to the next funny bit and wanting to see where the characters went.

Unfortunately, there's a "However" to this review. The book really loses steam the closer it gets to the end. As for humor, I don't think I laughed at all in the final 100 pages, which, for a comedy story, is a bit of a problem. And the characters never really go anywhere interesting.

I can clearly see the author was trying to subvert your expectations by not having characters develop the way they normally would. The problem I've often seen with authors who try this, and, unfortunately, Croshaw is no exception, is they're so focused on subverting tropes, they neglect to have the characters develop much at all. Other than the main character, no one involved changes much from the beginning to the end. Their situations may change, but their characters seem mostly unchanged. The female lead is particularly noteworthy in this regard. She starts out mostly unlikeable, continues to be mostly unlikeable, and finally evolves to be mostly unlikeable. To paraphrase Croshaw's own words "Intentionally unlikeable is still unlikeable."

Even the main character's arch is pretty unsatisfying. Which, again, given the themes in the book, may have been intentional, but that doesn't prevent the reader from feeling disappointed in the end.

There's also a big mystery hanging over the majority of the book, which ends up never being solved. It seems like the authors hints at the secret at the end, but if the solution he's implying is what I think it is, it carries some MASSIVE consistency issues.

Overall, I enjoyed the book, but I couldn't help being let down by it. There's a strong theme throughout poking fun at the typical Space Adventures of Captain Dashing, which is used well for a number of laughs and pseudo-poignant points, but with such a lackluster ending I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd rather have read one of those books.

In short Worth a read for the first 75%-80%, but it deserved a better ending.
This was an entertaining read that kept me up all night. In the entirety of the book, there was only one thing that I was able to predict and it was in the first part of the book. The rest of the book kept me engaged because I honestly didn't know what to expect next. We only get to read the book from the main character's perspective so we only know what he knows. Turns out, he's out of the loop on a lot of things.

In a previous book by this author, Mogworld, I enjoyed his playing around with words. And this book is similar. Because mathematics created Quantunneling, and Quantunneling put the space pilots out of business, mathematical terms became dirty words. As a result, this is a very clean book with only one or two dirty phrases. After the first couple of chapters, hearing someone referred to as a "bracket" no longer seems out of place. It's a rather natural linguistic turn that helps to create and sell the world.

I really don't think there was anything in this book that I didn't like. Yahtzee covers a lot of fictional and science fictional tropes within this satire, but they feel like they are a natural part of the world. From Angelo, a space pilot who'd gone native on another world until the princess dumped him, to evil corporate overlords with spoiled children. This book takes place outside of our world, but everything that Yahtzee put into it felt like a natural addition. Nothing was added or mentioned for no purpose and nothing felt out of place. And I STILL couldn't predict anything!

The ending for this book wasn't the grand boss battle that I usually like for my sci-fi books. Instead, I got an ending that I didn't know I wanted until I got it. It was a great way to end the book and leave me with with a satisfied smile.

So, if you are at all interested in satirical sci-fi novels, I highly recommend you pick this up. Yahtzee has an amazing sense of humor that is complimented by his intelligent story telling. I greatly enjoyed this book and am very glad that I bought it. I will be picking up more of Yahtzee's books.