I’m becoming accustomed to what is typically Scalzi: weirdness disguised as a story.  On the surface, it is a weird story: one day the moon changes from rocks and whatnot to cheese.  There is no science in the story to support this scenario nor do any of the characters offer an explanation.  What this is about is a view to how people might react to such an event.  And the cast ranges from an astronaut whose chance to walk on the moon just got aborted, to the billionaire who plots to be the next man to walk on the moon regardless of what it’s composed of, to a pastor trying to find faith in an unexplainable world, and, not surprisingly, a cheese store owner, and even a terminal patient, who may have been influenced by the event to reorder his priorities, and a host of others; mostly just ordinary people.

Most of the points-of-view don’t know each other; nor are they influenced by those people’s experiences.  But the author tries to find ways to connect to all of us through those eyes.  While there isn’t a really profound concept here; it could challenge the readers to examine their own priorities should such an earth-shattering (literally, by the way) event happen.

While not a laugh-out-loud experience as his previous novel, “Starter Villain”, this was enormously entertaining; and I certainly snorted and guffawed at least four times.  I also read it in a day, which should tell you something.  ~~  Catherine Book

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