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I Kaiju by K.D. Lawson
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Mara Jensen is humanity’s first genetically engineered Titan, built and weaponized to fight back against a wave of city-leveling kaiju — but as she locks into a brutal, bloody struggle with her first true opponent, it’s the memory of a chained circus bear from her childhood that cuts the deepest. K.D. Lawson delivers a visceral, emotionally charged take on the kaiju genre, asking what it really costs the “monster” built to save everyone else.
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