• Project Maigo

  • A Kaiju Thriller
  • By: Jeremy Robinson
  • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
  • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,387 ratings)

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Project Maigo

By: Jeremy Robinson
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
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Jon Hudson, head of the Department of Homeland Security's Fusion Center - Paranormal Division, is haunted by Boston's destruction at the hands of Nemesis, a 300-foot-tall monster with the heart of a murdered little girl, Maigo. In the time since Boston fell and Nemesis retreated to the ocean's depths, Hudson has helped prepare the United States against future attacks. But no one is prepared for what rises from the depths.

Five Kaiju attack cities and consume the world's citizens in an unstoppable rampage around the globe. But it soon becomes apparent that these attacks aren't all random events. Hudson is targeted, putting the FC-P headquarters, known as the Crow's Nest, and his team, in the very large crosshairs. General Lance Gordon, a man who carries Nemesis' vengeful heart in his chest, directs the Kaiju, and when Hudson finds protection from an unlikely source, the General turns his attention to his next target.

While Gordon and his Kaiju storm toward Washington, D.C., Hudson, along with his team and some new and unusual allies, race to stand in their path, hoping to spare the nation - and the world - from destruction. But salvation at the end of all things will come only through the gravest of sacrifices.

With Project Nemesis, Jeremy Robinson introduced the world of popular fiction to Kaiju, a word that has become popularized by the movie Pacific Rim, and is associated with classic movie monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera. In the year since the release of Project Nemesis, the audiobook has become the best-selling original Kaiju novel of all time, and it is being featured in the video game Colossal Kaiju Combat: Fall of Nemesis. In Project Maigo, Robinson amps up the scale, the characters and the city-stomping action, treating listeners to a truly monstrous experience typically reserved for the big screen.

©2013 Jeremy Robinson (P)2014 Jeremy Robinson

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You cannot help but get drawn in

After listening to Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson and narrated by Jeffrey Kafer I was excited to finally get the opportunity to listen to the follow-up, Project Maigo. If you haven’t listened to either, then you probably don’t know about Nemesis, she is an awesome 300ft kaiju. If Godzilla is the king, then Nemesis has to be the Queen of the Monsters. Jon Hudson is back in Project Maigo with his crackpot team and some new allies. Boston is in ruins and now 5 kaiju, yes, you read that right, 5 kaiju are running rampant around the world and it is up to Jon and his allies to put a stop to the mayhem.

I had high hopes for this book, enjoying the first as much as I did. I didn’t really see how it could be equalled but I feel it was surpassed. Jeremy Robinson is an entertaining author that always seems to bring the fun, excitement and destruction, along with a dose of realism, I know kaiju and realism probably don’t go together but that is the beauty of this book, you get the monsters destroying everything but you also have the human relationships, you cannot help but get drawn in and hope things work out for the characters.

Jeffrey Kafer is pretty outstanding in his performance of the kaiju, I must admit, I wasn’t sure he could pull it off, I don’t think ‘monsters’ when I think of Kafer, however, I was happily surprised. Kafer can definitely do Kaiju. I was so engrossed in the narration and story that I often forgot I was in a public place, I may have received an odd look or two, but it was worth it. I enjoyed it so much, I actually listened to it twice in the space of a week.

I would highly recommend this audiobook to anyone that enjoys kaiju thrillers, entertaining writing with pop culture references and impressive narrating skills.

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Must read sequel

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This was a really fun, action-packed story. At times the story has you laughing, crying and cheering. I hope we get more in this series. Jeffrey Kafer is superb as usual.

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LOVE IT. FANTASTIC STORYLINE. WONDERFUL PERFORMANCES,

Very enjoyable. Loved every bit of it. Action packed and performed by Jeffrey Kafer beautifully. He brought the story to live with all the different voices and the tension and emotions were so well played out. I am going to book three now and I hope there will be more books on this series and that Jeffrey Kafer will be the narrator. Much thanks to Jeremy Robinson for writing such fantastic books.

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I love this series!!

honestly this is probably the 9th time I've listened to the whole series. and I appreciate it more every time.

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AWESOME book!

Would you listen to Project Maigo again? Why?

I feel Jeremy Robinson is a literary genius who is not afraid to approach a VERY underserved genre in literature...Kaiju.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Project Maigo?

Probably the attack on Sydney/

Have you listened to any of Jeffrey Kafer’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

He was great as usual.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I was impressed by the entire book.

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Good, but get stuck in a pattern 

When I read the first book, they caught my interest, but after reading the rest, I started seeing a pattern how he writes things always a character in the next chapter you meet a new person that gets killed by the monster, or kills by the event of the monster, and he repeats this action, while I like that the women are actually the strongest in his group. He still has a habit of making the women kind of an idiot. It’s just he has a pattern that he keeps sticking with to the point you kind of predict the future of the story relatively quickly.

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Don’t worry, it’s stompy.

**POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR THIS & DEFINITE SPOILERS FOR PREVIOUS BOOKS**

In my review for Project Nemesis, I called it (among other good things) an excellent summer blockbuster. I hesitate to use the same term for Project Maigo, the sequel to Project Nemesis... if only because sequels have a bad reputation, and I don’t want you to think of Project Maigo as anything less than a 2nd masterpiece starring Jeremy Robinson’s contender for America’s Kaiju.

Without repeating a huge chunk of my Project Nemesis review (which I finished writing just minutes ago), this is an engaging story of how a small group of people try and protect the world from kaiju threats. Not “a” kaiju threat, as more kaiju appear courtesy of returning villain Lance Gordon. We see Jon Hudson and his team go against Gordon’s merry band of monstrosities as well as a government bureaucracy that starts growing complacent when a year passes without Nemesis reappearing. Add to that Gordon’s former associate Katsu Endo and his sister offering to work alongside them on behalf of the company partially responsible for Nemesis’ creation and it’s clear the situation escalated. That said, this book doesn’t lose the humor and humanity of the previous book. It’s still more than “monsters make smash” that’ll have you laugh while making you question morality alongside the characters. Basically, it’s a smart story with juvenile humor. An excellent combo.

That said, the humanity of the previous book is still intact. Unlike many sequels, Jon Hudson and Ashley Collins’ relationship hits a few hurdles but they remain a loving couple (I hate it when a sequel breaks a couple up just to put them back together in the sequel). Jon also has to deal with the connection that formed between himself and Nemesis/Maigo in the previous book, including how it looks to his superiors. Katsu is still an enigmatic quality. Even when he’s helping Jon and the FC-P, you never know if or when the other shoe drops, and he or his sister Alessi switch sides. We also the start of a mini-arc for Jon’s co-workers Watson and Cooper that’ll take us through the rest of the series.

We also get new characters Mark Hawkins, Avril Joliet, and Lilly... at least, they’re new if you never read Jeremy Robinson’s Island 731. Jeremy does a good job both introducing and reintroducing them for whoever needs it, despite only playing parts in the beginning and the end. Alessi is basically another Katsu without being a clone, if that makes sense. The novel does a good job introducing small differences for variety.

That leaves, as best as I can without going on forever, the main attractions. Nemesis is, again, a badass awesome yet thoughtful creature. We see more of the struggle between monster and girl who, like Jon, have to try and figure out their connection to him. It’s again a look in a kaiju’s psyche unlike Godzilla or Gamera. While that’s missing from the other five kaiju that appear in this novel, they make up for it by having different personalities and raising the stakes for everyone involved. Even the big bad of this and the last novel, Lance Gordon, is a three-dimensional character. It’s twisted but there is sympathy with him wanting a connection with Nemesis again while still keeping him an antagonist.

An equal part of this book’s success is the writing and world-building. They’re dense enough to paint a picture but quick and flowing enough to move the story quickly enough that it feels like you’re reading an action-packed movie. You can clearly see everything happening in your mind’s eye and you’re on the edge of your seat the whole time. I also give credit for how clearly Jeremy Robinson describes each kaiju. You get a clear idea what every creature looks like even without the illustrations at the end of the ebook (and missing from the audiobook so more kudos to Jeremy). That’s a strength all the books have but I’m noting it here since we have five new ones that still share characteristics with Nemesis.

As before, while it’s occasionally difficult to know when one character starts talking in a two-person conversation, Jeffrey Kafer expertly brings the characters to life. His narration of Jeremy Robinson’s words brings the story to life in a way not even a 1000-person strong film crew could equal.

Project Maigo succeeds where many sequels fall short: it continues the original’s story without undoing and/or repeating elements of it. It is a great read just like Project Nemesis and, really, like most of Jeremy Robinson’s novels. If Project Nemesis shows it’s possible to tell an action-packed, funny, and thoughtful story starring a giant beast, Project Maigo shows, in a talented writer’s hands, it’s not a one-off phenomenon.

Slight spoiler... the magic doesn’t end at two.

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Monsters

Got to love a good monster book, worth the credit and worth the time. I would recommend this to everyone.

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Well done!

Another enjoyable story from Jeremy Robinson! And quite the surprise at the very end! Looking forward to more!

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great sequel

I love where this series is going. Keep it up! There is a great deal of unexpected development happening here
Thanks!

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