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Pacific Rim
Pacific Rim Uprising: Ascension
The official prequel novelization bridging the gap between Pacific Rim and the upcoming Pacific Rim UprisingIt's been ten years since humanity's war with the monstrous Kaiju ended and the Breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean was sealed. The Pan Pacific Defense Corps remains vigilant in anticipation of the Kaiju's return, expanding and advancing their fleet of massive mechs known as Jaegers and accepting the best and the brightest candidates into the Jaeger Academy Training Program to forge the next generation of heroes. Training is competitive and positions are few. Ou-Yang Jinhai and Viktoriya Malikova grew up in the ashes of the Kaiju War and followed different paths to join the latest batch of cadets at the Moyulan Shatterdome, the most prestigious PPDC training location in the world. Yet not long after their arrival, tragedy strikes as a deadly act of sabotage casts suspicion on the new cadets. Together they must work to clear their name and discover the truth as dark forces conspire against them and new threats surface from both sides of the Breach...
259 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 13, 2018
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Greg Keyes
84 books653 followersGregory Keyes is a writer of science fiction and fantasy who has written both original and media-related novels under both the names J. Gregory Keyes and "Greg Keyes".
Greg Keyes was born in to a large, diverse, storytelling family. He received degrees in anthropology from Mississippi State and the University of Georgia before becoming a fulltime writer.
He lives in Savannah, Georgia.
Greg Keyes was born in to a large, diverse, storytelling family. He received degrees in anthropology from Mississippi State and the University of Georgia before becoming a fulltime writer.
He lives in Savannah, Georgia.
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March 19, 2018
This might be the most unneeded review I’ve ever written, I mean how many people actually enjoyed the first Pacific Rim movie enough to read a book that chronicles the events taking place between it and the sequel. Well from the looks of the Goodreads page I’m the only person, not only to read but to show any interest at all!
Let’s get something out of the way - I loved the first film. It was so bad it was amazing. The clunky script complete with terrible Australian accents, the outlandish action with delayed introduction of the most basic weaponry, actors like Charlie Day, Idris Elba and Ron Pelrman running the show, it all worked. I even saw it on a plane for the first time, which as you can imagine is a terrible place to see a movie about giant robots but for some reason it filled a popcorn shaped hole in my heart. Anyway I’m very excited for the second movie and am looking forward to them improving on some of the lesser elements of the original. Sadly that is one of the reasons this book was pretty diabolical.
Focusing on two new cadets at the Jaeger training school named Jinhai and Vik and their first few weeks, the story involves the sabotage of a Jaeger, and the administrations and students attempts to discover the responsible party. Was it a dangerous and unpredictable Kaiju worshipper, a student who has been compromised or a once loyal pilot who has lost his way? You’ll find out but it doesn’t really matter. Nothing in the book matters to the story and I get the sense the writer was given absolutely no information about the events of the second movie it just all feels so inconsequential.
After looking at the author’s page it is obvious that this is something he ‘specialises in’ as there are countless movie novelizations, prequels, adaptions etc. I hate to say it but when you have to wonder if someone who wrote books covering Thor the Dark World, Independence Day 2 (or 1.5), and a number of Planet of the Apes tie-ins really has a story to tell that will enhance the original material or is just fulfilling a contract and collecting a paycheck.
It is also horribly edited with the story jumping between current day and multiple flashback time lines like a two year old on kids youtube. Several times the final page of a chapter seems to have moved to near the end of the book to create a sudden culmination of events that brings everything together but it just feels manufactured and I read it more to get it finished than anything else.
I would not recommend this book to anyone. It gets a two because of the Gravity Sling which was kind of cool.
2/10
Let’s get something out of the way - I loved the first film. It was so bad it was amazing. The clunky script complete with terrible Australian accents, the outlandish action with delayed introduction of the most basic weaponry, actors like Charlie Day, Idris Elba and Ron Pelrman running the show, it all worked. I even saw it on a plane for the first time, which as you can imagine is a terrible place to see a movie about giant robots but for some reason it filled a popcorn shaped hole in my heart. Anyway I’m very excited for the second movie and am looking forward to them improving on some of the lesser elements of the original. Sadly that is one of the reasons this book was pretty diabolical.
Focusing on two new cadets at the Jaeger training school named Jinhai and Vik and their first few weeks, the story involves the sabotage of a Jaeger, and the administrations and students attempts to discover the responsible party. Was it a dangerous and unpredictable Kaiju worshipper, a student who has been compromised or a once loyal pilot who has lost his way? You’ll find out but it doesn’t really matter. Nothing in the book matters to the story and I get the sense the writer was given absolutely no information about the events of the second movie it just all feels so inconsequential.
After looking at the author’s page it is obvious that this is something he ‘specialises in’ as there are countless movie novelizations, prequels, adaptions etc. I hate to say it but when you have to wonder if someone who wrote books covering Thor the Dark World, Independence Day 2 (or 1.5), and a number of Planet of the Apes tie-ins really has a story to tell that will enhance the original material or is just fulfilling a contract and collecting a paycheck.
It is also horribly edited with the story jumping between current day and multiple flashback time lines like a two year old on kids youtube. Several times the final page of a chapter seems to have moved to near the end of the book to create a sudden culmination of events that brings everything together but it just feels manufactured and I read it more to get it finished than anything else.
I would not recommend this book to anyone. It gets a two because of the Gravity Sling which was kind of cool.
2/10
March 24, 2018
Honestly, I wasn't expecting a lot from the book, but I was pleasantly surprised. There are few, if any, particularly good examples of kaiju fiction if only because the genre is so heavily-reliant on visuals. And this book? Not too bad, actually. The plot is essentially a murder mystery with occasional flashbacks to the first kaiju war and VR training sessions to give the book a more brisk pace (and kaiju action in a time when none can exist). Its a ton of fun to see historic battles that were referenced and new, original ones with original kaiju and jaegers. It mostly works, even if the characters aren't mind-blowing they're interesting enough and provide worthy protagonists for a novel. Also, there's a LOT of cool world-building here that expands nicely on the films' setting that fans will enjoy, not to mention an absolute heaping of fan service for mega-fans. Ever wondered about what Cherno's pilots were like? How the property market was affected by the kaiju wars? You get that kind of fun stuff here. Finally, on a side note, having now seen the second film (don't worry- no spoilers), I can say that this novel becomes almost necessary for getting the FULL story of the sequel, as major character backstory that is absent from the movie is here as well as a large amount of world-building that both better explains the movie and the universe (not to mention the movie drops callbacks to events and people in the book all the time). Good stuff. Nothing incredible, but good stuff. This might/probably will be the last PR franchise addition we get folks, so enjoy.
For those keeping track, the PR fictional universe includes (in chronological order):
- Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero (Prequel)
- Pacific Rim: Tales from the Drift (Side Story)
* 'Pacific Rim' (First Film)
- Pacific Rim Uprising: Ascension (Prequel)
- Pacific Rim: Aftermath (Limited-Run Comic Prequel/TBA Paperback at the time of this Review)
- Pacific Rim: Amara (Webtoon Prequel/Can't be Collected Due to Format)
* 'Pacific Rim: Uprising'
+
The Two Novelizations of the movies, both of which add small details to their respective stories fans might appreciate, but are largely the same. Buy only if you're obsessed with kaiju like me.
For those keeping track, the PR fictional universe includes (in chronological order):
- Pacific Rim: Tales from Year Zero (Prequel)
- Pacific Rim: Tales from the Drift (Side Story)
* 'Pacific Rim' (First Film)
- Pacific Rim Uprising: Ascension (Prequel)
- Pacific Rim: Aftermath (Limited-Run Comic Prequel/TBA Paperback at the time of this Review)
- Pacific Rim: Amara (Webtoon Prequel/Can't be Collected Due to Format)
* 'Pacific Rim: Uprising'
+
The Two Novelizations of the movies, both of which add small details to their respective stories fans might appreciate, but are largely the same. Buy only if you're obsessed with kaiju like me.
April 17, 2018
There was just so much left out in the Uprising movie that were not addressed, and this book partially answers it. I know several readers didn’t like the jumping timelines and multiple POVs, but I personally enjoyed it. I liked learning about the new characters, as well as how the previous ones from the first movie were intertwined well into the story. I couldn’t help but want more Mako POV, and to me that was lacking in this book. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the action and the continuing story after the first movie. Lambert was still a one-dimensional character to me and I hope that once I get to start reading the Uprising movie novelization, his character would be somewhat fleshed out.
I liked this book because I’m a super fan of the franchise. I was disappointed in the movie, but thankfully this book filled in the blanks that were not featured in the big screen. I recommend that you give this a shot.
I liked this book because I’m a super fan of the franchise. I was disappointed in the movie, but thankfully this book filled in the blanks that were not featured in the big screen. I recommend that you give this a shot.
May 26, 2023
i loved the second movie but i just found this kind of boring and unnecessary idk... it's not very well-written and i think greg keyes inherently misunderstands the appeal of pacific rim; it's not about the tech, it's about human connection! and i just don't feel like the characters really have It. there's a focus on informing within the narrative who is drift compatible but it comes across as very forced, especially with lambert and burke.
speaking of lambert, getting more content for him is really the only appeal of this novel - but he doesn't even get too many scenes (until the end) and i don't think the personality presented here represents him very well. trying to force the jules/lambert narrative is weird too! he's just a whole lot better in the film tbh
speaking of lambert, getting more content for him is really the only appeal of this novel - but he doesn't even get too many scenes (until the end) and i don't think the personality presented here represents him very well. trying to force the jules/lambert narrative is weird too! he's just a whole lot better in the film tbh
July 1, 2022
Your standard movie prequel - predictable and unengaging.
If you're looking for Jaeger action, check out the original film - most of it takes place in the simulators.
If you're looking for Jaeger action, check out the original film - most of it takes place in the simulators.
May 27, 2018
Amazing answered so much I didn’t get between the first and 2nd Movies!
January 24, 2021
Greg Keyes seems to be the king of sci-fi and fantasy adaptations of popular media. Some of these adaptations seem to be on point including his takes on X-Com and Planet of the Apes. However, he can also have some that seem to fall short (just take a look at the Elder Scrolls series). But since I had been interested in the Pacific Rim property, what better way than to take some time and read a novel set in the world. I'm willing to admit I was wrong.
The premise of this story is that it is set ten years after the original war between humanity and the Kaiju. Now the focus has shifted and instead of defending the world, the Jaeger mech pilots are training the next wave of heroes. Among them are Ou-Yang Jinhai and Viktoryia Malikova (or Jinhai and Vik) who come from multiple backgrounds and ways of life. However, it appears that there is a new threat looming in the background as they train and compete to be the best they can be of the young recruits.
Before one reads this book, the reader needs to be aware that this book shifts from timeline to timeline until they get near the climax of the story. They go back and forth one time period to another over the respective chapters. The result is jarring, confusing and doesn't really help to set a cohesive tone at all.
What's worse is that once you get vested with all of the timelines and the two main characters who have you come to understand and know, then the story completely goes back and focuses on the characters from the original Pacific Rim. I'm sure some fans of the movie will be overjoyed they don't have to read about the young cadets at the climax but for someone who vested a couple of hundred pages in these new characters, I wasn't ready to abandon them.
This book unfortunately ends up fairly disposable, even to the fans of the series except as a distraction for their mech-hunger. It would probably be more advantageous to look forward to the anime which is set to debut on Netflix anytime now. The book makes too many mistakes in its use of timelines and the story with Vik and Jinhai doesn't quite have the impact it should. Unfortunately I can't recommend this, spend your time with the two movies or anime series instead. Enjoy (or not).
The premise of this story is that it is set ten years after the original war between humanity and the Kaiju. Now the focus has shifted and instead of defending the world, the Jaeger mech pilots are training the next wave of heroes. Among them are Ou-Yang Jinhai and Viktoryia Malikova (or Jinhai and Vik) who come from multiple backgrounds and ways of life. However, it appears that there is a new threat looming in the background as they train and compete to be the best they can be of the young recruits.
Before one reads this book, the reader needs to be aware that this book shifts from timeline to timeline until they get near the climax of the story. They go back and forth one time period to another over the respective chapters. The result is jarring, confusing and doesn't really help to set a cohesive tone at all.
What's worse is that once you get vested with all of the timelines and the two main characters who have you come to understand and know, then the story completely goes back and focuses on the characters from the original Pacific Rim. I'm sure some fans of the movie will be overjoyed they don't have to read about the young cadets at the climax but for someone who vested a couple of hundred pages in these new characters, I wasn't ready to abandon them.
This book unfortunately ends up fairly disposable, even to the fans of the series except as a distraction for their mech-hunger. It would probably be more advantageous to look forward to the anime which is set to debut on Netflix anytime now. The book makes too many mistakes in its use of timelines and the story with Vik and Jinhai doesn't quite have the impact it should. Unfortunately I can't recommend this, spend your time with the two movies or anime series instead. Enjoy (or not).
March 31, 2018
ok I gave a 4 for this book: 2 points for basically whatever starts with "pacific rim" in the title, because I freaking love the first one that I actually felt the drift in the theater (apparently not a whole lot of people would appreciate it nowadays), and another 2 points for this prequel.
Overall, it's a well-written novel that adds more inputs and details to the history and background of two young jaeger pilots, or cadets - Jinghai and Viki, which is from China and Russia respectively.
However, the 2nd pacific rim movie wasn't about these two pilots, at all. So there's disconnection there.
It depicts the bonds between the two and also inserts an decent amount of time for a mission by Gipsy Avenger. It also shared a couple of epic fights involving Cherno Alpha, and other jaegers taht didn't get a lot of screenplays in the movie.
I feel that if this were to make another film about Pacific Rim, it could be a 40 -60 minutes episode and that's it.
One thing I hated, was the fact the story line was so messed up.. I understand the author was trying to describe two or sometimes three events in a chronic style, but the thing is that these events happened in multiple timeline, and putting them together would be a disaster for the readers if not handled well. When reading through the book, I'm forced to jump back to 2030 and forth to 2045, and sometimes 2010 to understand what's going on. It's confusing and breaking the stories apart.
Overall, it's a well-written novel that adds more inputs and details to the history and background of two young jaeger pilots, or cadets - Jinghai and Viki, which is from China and Russia respectively.
However, the 2nd pacific rim movie wasn't about these two pilots, at all. So there's disconnection there.
It depicts the bonds between the two and also inserts an decent amount of time for a mission by Gipsy Avenger. It also shared a couple of epic fights involving Cherno Alpha, and other jaegers taht didn't get a lot of screenplays in the movie.
I feel that if this were to make another film about Pacific Rim, it could be a 40 -60 minutes episode and that's it.
One thing I hated, was the fact the story line was so messed up.. I understand the author was trying to describe two or sometimes three events in a chronic style, but the thing is that these events happened in multiple timeline, and putting them together would be a disaster for the readers if not handled well. When reading through the book, I'm forced to jump back to 2030 and forth to 2045, and sometimes 2010 to understand what's going on. It's confusing and breaking the stories apart.
June 24, 2025
I liked this book. Quite a bit.
I enjoy stories that build a background for my favorite movies, and Pacific Rim is a franchise I love.
It has a great main story, concentrating on two minor characters from Pacific Rim Uprising. Although they have minimal involvement in the movie, that's what building a background story is all about! Filling in gaps and expanding on aspects you never knew anything about. There are plot twists, conflicts, changes of characters and of course action!
Having said that, it could have been a great book, had it not been for the incessant flashbacks. Multiple past eras for one character, multiple past eras for the other character, and although going back to showcase their parents' doings is absolutely understandable otherwise there would be no Kaiju-Jaeger battles, the mini stories of their early youth, their teens, their early adulthood are just too many. It feels as if the main plot only takes up 1/3 of the book.
Don't get me wrong. I love all the extra information and the character building. But it was overdone in this book I'm afraid.
Still, this is a 4-star book!
I enjoy stories that build a background for my favorite movies, and Pacific Rim is a franchise I love.
It has a great main story, concentrating on two minor characters from Pacific Rim Uprising. Although they have minimal involvement in the movie, that's what building a background story is all about! Filling in gaps and expanding on aspects you never knew anything about. There are plot twists, conflicts, changes of characters and of course action!
Having said that, it could have been a great book, had it not been for the incessant flashbacks. Multiple past eras for one character, multiple past eras for the other character, and although going back to showcase their parents' doings is absolutely understandable otherwise there would be no Kaiju-Jaeger battles, the mini stories of their early youth, their teens, their early adulthood are just too many. It feels as if the main plot only takes up 1/3 of the book.
Don't get me wrong. I love all the extra information and the character building. But it was overdone in this book I'm afraid.
Still, this is a 4-star book!
April 7, 2018
Ok, this was a damn good read! Enjoyable, fun sci-fi with a heart and fueled by the mythos established in the first Pacific Rim movie. This sequel/prequel novel follows several years after the Kaiju Wars ended (PR1) and leads right into the events of the upcoming movie sequel (PR2: Uprising).
The story follows the key individuals of the new movie in their adventures as cadets in the PPDC, when a murder-conspiracy plot takes place, and it looks like one or more of the cadets is guilty.
Bouncing around the timelines and locations leading up to the main plot point, we learn in a progressively revealing fashion the histories and legacies of two cadets in particular. During these flashbacks, the culprit is slowly revealed. Is it one of the cadets? A Ranger? J-Tech? Janitor? Visitor? Butler...‽‽ 😉
Return to the Kaiju-ravaged world and prepare for a fun, thrilling adventure that more than adequately prepares you for the new movie, Pacific Rim: Uprising!
I, for one, loved this book.
The story follows the key individuals of the new movie in their adventures as cadets in the PPDC, when a murder-conspiracy plot takes place, and it looks like one or more of the cadets is guilty.
Bouncing around the timelines and locations leading up to the main plot point, we learn in a progressively revealing fashion the histories and legacies of two cadets in particular. During these flashbacks, the culprit is slowly revealed. Is it one of the cadets? A Ranger? J-Tech? Janitor? Visitor? Butler...‽‽ 😉
Return to the Kaiju-ravaged world and prepare for a fun, thrilling adventure that more than adequately prepares you for the new movie, Pacific Rim: Uprising!
I, for one, loved this book.
July 7, 2019
This book is what Pacific Rim Uprising should have been. I won't go into spoilers. But to avoid those, I'm just going to give you guys a bulleted list of why this book should be the only Uprising media you bother with.
1. We learn what happened to Raleigh.
2. The heroes of Pacific Rim are properly honored.
3. Mako Mori is not fridged and is not relegated to a useless prop.
4. The characters are given depth and we actually care about them!
5. The earnest sincerity of Pacific Rim is still alive and well. Yes, there are a few funny moments. But, at its heart, Ascension gets what the Uprising movie missed: the fact that humanity is integral to this story and that actually caring about the characters is essential.
Save your time (and your pain). Don't watch the movie. Read Keyes' book instead, and then dream of what could have been. Trust me.
1. We learn what happened to Raleigh.
2. The heroes of Pacific Rim are properly honored.
3. Mako Mori is not fridged and is not relegated to a useless prop.
4. The characters are given depth and we actually care about them!
5. The earnest sincerity of Pacific Rim is still alive and well. Yes, there are a few funny moments. But, at its heart, Ascension gets what the Uprising movie missed: the fact that humanity is integral to this story and that actually caring about the characters is essential.
Save your time (and your pain). Don't watch the movie. Read Keyes' book instead, and then dream of what could have been. Trust me.
January 27, 2025
Having definitely felt that the second film was missing a lot, especially in terms of character development, I decided to read the prequel. There are definitely some good bits, I enjoyed getting some more of Marko having had so little of her in Uprising and understanding the backstories of the Rangers was mildly interesting. However, I wouldn't say it's a must-read. Whilst often I'm a fan of flash-backs and multiple viewpoints, it just didn't work for this book for some reason. I think there was definitely enough material to cover in the present to need to keep doing flashbacks and maybe it undermined the story a tad? However, happy to be challenged on this. It's not that I didn't enjoy the flashbacks, Pacific Rim generally is an interesting universe and I sucked it up but was looking to find out more about Jake and Lambert and even more Marko!
May 31, 2018
I've seen both movies, and I was very excited to see what happened between them. I've read most material produced from the first film including previous scripts and novelisations that I was looking forward to reading this PR2 sequel.
Two important things that I found about this: the new characters from PR2 got the respect that they deserve. They got decent character development and looks into their backstories, where as the film decided not to delve into the characters like it seemed to in the first one.
Second, however, I felt like the old characters weren't treated with enough respect. Mako, Raleigh, the Kaidanovskys, THE HANSENS. You might find some answers in this book, but not all. Perhaps more will be answered when I read the PR2 novellisation. Here's hoping.
Two important things that I found about this: the new characters from PR2 got the respect that they deserve. They got decent character development and looks into their backstories, where as the film decided not to delve into the characters like it seemed to in the first one.
Second, however, I felt like the old characters weren't treated with enough respect. Mako, Raleigh, the Kaidanovskys, THE HANSENS. You might find some answers in this book, but not all. Perhaps more will be answered when I read the PR2 novellisation. Here's hoping.
April 19, 2018
“Sleep eluded Jinhai — his mind kept replaying the Drift obsessively, trying to tease out what was him and what was Vik. Even the memories he knew for a fact were his weren't exactly how he recalled them: they had been refracted through the lens of Vik’s mind, been turned at a different angle, gotten tangled in a different point of view. He was not entirely him anymore.”
I was going to give this 4.5 stars but the Jules + Nate thing at the end was ridiculously dumb so. down to 4. lots of the quality drifting content I was looking for, though.
I was going to give this 4.5 stars but the Jules + Nate thing at the end was ridiculously dumb so. down to 4. lots of the quality drifting content I was looking for, though.
April 23, 2018
As a big fan of the Pacific Rim franchise as a whole, this was pretty much everything I needed. It was full of big robots fighting monsters and it was full of development for characters I already know and love and for newer ones that I started loving after reading through.
The big, overarching plot wasn't particularly gripping for me - it seemed a little generic and bland - but the more focused chapters on individuals and Drifting relationships and backgrounds were well worth the read, though the constant hopping between different times and POVs was a bit disorienting.
The big, overarching plot wasn't particularly gripping for me - it seemed a little generic and bland - but the more focused chapters on individuals and Drifting relationships and backgrounds were well worth the read, though the constant hopping between different times and POVs was a bit disorienting.
July 14, 2025
Bought this book just because I really enjoyed the films and love the plot of giant mechs versus kaiju.
I went into it expecting very little, but i was pleasantly surprised how much i was invested in the story. The story and characters are really well developed and keep up a great pace throughout. Nothing feels overly long or like filler like in some books. Kaiju worshippers are an intriguing plot line. Its also really difficult to convey the huge spectacles of the fighting and the kaijus but this book does a great job of it.
I went into it expecting very little, but i was pleasantly surprised how much i was invested in the story. The story and characters are really well developed and keep up a great pace throughout. Nothing feels overly long or like filler like in some books. Kaiju worshippers are an intriguing plot line. Its also really difficult to convey the huge spectacles of the fighting and the kaijus but this book does a great job of it.
April 8, 2018
I'm genuinely stunned at how good Greg Keyes is. He took a simple movie tie-in and actually made supporting characters more compelling than they would be in the subsequent movie.
He also found clever ways of giving us Kaiju vs Jaegar porn without positing a new breach. Really smart decisions to make a story that's interesting in it's own right, especially in regards to Jinhai's parents.
The only flaws are really beyond Keyes' control. The fate of Raleigh and what happens when you chuck a Kaiju into a volcano actually contradict Uprising. Not horribly so, but enough that you get the sense the Keyes did not benefit from a tight story group that would approve and endorse his take on canon.
He also found clever ways of giving us Kaiju vs Jaegar porn without positing a new breach. Really smart decisions to make a story that's interesting in it's own right, especially in regards to Jinhai's parents.
The only flaws are really beyond Keyes' control. The fate of Raleigh and what happens when you chuck a Kaiju into a volcano actually contradict Uprising. Not horribly so, but enough that you get the sense the Keyes did not benefit from a tight story group that would approve and endorse his take on canon.
November 2, 2025
i'm fan of the first movie and i enjoyed the first book.
this one however, isn't as good or intresting.
it had some interesting moments, like the POV of the main Characters while the events of the first movie/book were happening or the view of how people in that world survive.
i liked that had some world-building information that prepare you for the second movie.
however, i kinda didn't care about most of it and that why i didn't finished it in less that two weeks.
this one however, isn't as good or intresting.
it had some interesting moments, like the POV of the main Characters while the events of the first movie/book were happening or the view of how people in that world survive.
i liked that had some world-building information that prepare you for the second movie.
however, i kinda didn't care about most of it and that why i didn't finished it in less that two weeks.
August 19, 2018
The book's plot was weird and the book was unnecessary. The book was all over the place. The was on part where they referred Striker Eureka as Eureka Striker which reallu annoyed me. I would give this one a hard pass.
November 14, 2021
I felt like the cadets learned a few lessons in this story that by the next book they completely forgot. Nothing like a repeat of history for a good story. Lol, over all though I did enjoy this book.
December 6, 2022
It’s fine. Probably the second best piece of PacRim media I’ve consumed (after the first movie, ofc) although the bar is low. The plot is a little funky, especially toward the end, but the characters are more or less alright, although there are too many of them for my taste.
January 23, 2023
While very simple I believe this was a well done prequel to the movie and added depth to characters from the first movie. Personally this is something no matter what the franchise is I will always appreciate.
March 10, 2020
lol Pacific Rim is always such a crazy time
March 27, 2018
Novela que es cubre los acontecimientos entre Pacific Rim 1 y la 2. Presenta los nuevos personajes que veremos en PR2 y nos cuenta que pasó con algunos personajes de la PR original. Tiene buenos momentos y abundan los flashbacks. Entretenida. Bastante acción pero no llega ser espectacular.
March 2, 2019
This is, of course, a tie-in novel. As such, it mainly holds interest for serious fans of the movies, not as a self-contained novel. But I really enjoyed it. It took several characters from Uprising who weren't particularly likeable and made me care deeply about them by the end, and it gave Mako Mori the closure she didn't get in her grievously tiny Uprising role. The mystery plot is well-chosen, since there's inherent interest there, and that makes up for any prequel-itis where nothing gets to happen. Plus, the book format means there's room for a lot more introspection than in a movie, so there are some really satisfying internal arcs. The author also actually thought about the movies and elaborated on elements that seem obvious now, but that I hadn't thought about myself. It feels lived-in, more than the (literally) larger-than-life drama of the movies, although I love both. And it's in the spirit of the first Pacific Rim movie, avoiding sexism and gender-based character decisions, giving the plot of rage to Vik and the plot of emotions to Jinhai. The time-jumping plotlines, although sometimes hard to follow in audiobook format, allowed for similar windows into Jaeger pilots we barely saw in the first movie, and occasional cameos from the major characters.
The audiobook reading by Jeffrey Kafer is generally very good, although his pronunciation occasionally varies.
The audiobook reading by Jeffrey Kafer is generally very good, although his pronunciation occasionally varies.
July 12, 2024
While the movies may lead you to believe that this will just be Jaeger vs Kaiju fights told to you in booming detail, that side of Pacific Rim is put on the back burner for this connection between the first and second movie. Going through a mystery drama story for this series was a nice detour of what fans of this IP will be used to, this time getting close and personal to our main characters as they try to get to the bottom of a murder brought through a hack on a drift simulation together, having never met each other prior to the event that they are both suspects of. I can’t say I was very invested in the mystery itself, not exactly being on the edge of my seat waiting to find the truth, but the character development, backstory, and relationship between the characters felt well written and didn’t feel like it was forced or rushed
August 31, 2024
2023 Review 112. Pacific Rim Uprising Ascension by Greg Keyes
Page Count : 319
This is a fantastic prequel to Pacific Rim Uprising.
Set immediately prior to the events of the film, this book introduces all of the young cadets from the film and fills you in on their histories.
The only one that is missing is Amara Namani as her back story is a feature of the film.
It also explains where Nate Lambert's co-pilot from Gipsy Avenger (Burke) goes after being briefly mentioned in the film.
I absolutely loved this book. The only reason this book took me a week to read is because I started reading another book during the early part of it.
I will be very happy to reread this book in the future and as soon as I finished it, I started on the film novelisation of Pacific Rim Uprising.
5*
*****
Page Count : 319
This is a fantastic prequel to Pacific Rim Uprising.
Set immediately prior to the events of the film, this book introduces all of the young cadets from the film and fills you in on their histories.
The only one that is missing is Amara Namani as her back story is a feature of the film.
It also explains where Nate Lambert's co-pilot from Gipsy Avenger (Burke) goes after being briefly mentioned in the film.
I absolutely loved this book. The only reason this book took me a week to read is because I started reading another book during the early part of it.
I will be very happy to reread this book in the future and as soon as I finished it, I started on the film novelisation of Pacific Rim Uprising.
5*
*****
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