When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

TL;DR: Another fun Scalzi, a sort of cheesey thought experiment.
Source: Netgalley, thank you to the publisher!!

Plot: This one bounces around as the moon turns to cheese and everyone looses their mind.
Characters: We don’t really focus on the characters but I enjoyed the ones we saw, even for as briefly as we did.
Setting: Again, we moved about but the settings were real and felt genuine in the representation.
Science Fiction: Even Scalzi in his notes says the science is loose-goosey but it was fun!

Thoughts:

Scalzi is always fun for me. I see the critiques and I can agree, but I still enjoy his quippy style and somewhat ridiculous plots. This one is no different from previous books. The moon turns to actual cheese, or as NASA says within the book an ‘organic matrix’. Naturally this causes absolute chaos for the scientific community and populace as it makes the moon large and very bright. It’s not something they can hide. How people react is the real focus of this and it’s pretty wild.

Take a moment and think about how you’d react to this impossible change. Scalzi probably hits it with at least one character. The dialogues are fun, the characters relatable and believable. I’ll admit the story is fairly shallow outside of some tickles at deeper thought and theory, but that’s Scalzi’s strength. His books have just enough information and thought to get you going and to be readable for everyone.

My favorite part of this by far was the ending, which actually hit very hard and feels a little topical to certain events occurring now. This is a Scalzi like many Scalzi books. If you enjoy his work this is a great one to pickup, try it if you’re interested!