Review: Redshirts

Redshirts by John Scalzi
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Well this is an obvious win for me. I like Scalzi, I like Trek and occasionally I also like to laugh at silly things. Scalzi seems to have a special knack for the light hearted stories and while reading this I was reminded of how much fun I had with his 'The Kaiju Preservation Society', another fun story that didn't take itself too seriously at all.

In fact, when it began to take itself a little more seriously in the three Codas at the end, that was when I began to lose interest. A good reading friend of mine split this story into three sections for his review and I'll copy that.

The first introduces us to the ship and the characters and the larger setting of the Universal Union (aka Dub U). I liked this a lot, I was fully immersed and enjoyed the light hearted banter. 5-stars.

The second takes the characters on a mission to save themselves by affecting the real life production of the fictional show that they exist within. If you're a Red Dwarf fan this should remind you of the three-parter 'Back to Earth'. I also loved this and would give it 5-stars for enjoyment.

The third and final section has three Codas which try to give meaning to the events of the first two parts and ironically I found this section completely asinine. Perhaps it'd speak to the right person at the right time in their life, but it just wasn't what I wanted from this simple and silly read. 3-stars.

Overall, a fun time was had by this reader.

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