Will I love When the Moon Hits Your Eye?

I wonder if author John Scalzi lost a bet and had to write this book to pay for it. He's written a story that starts with an absolutely absurd premise, and then proceeds to treat that premise as if it were absolutely real. Once you accept that, you're led through a deep dive of how this absurd premise affects various people. Sure, it affects the entire planet, but the only way to really examine what's going on is through one person at a time. And somehow, absurdly, Scalzi pulls it off.

I loved the first half of the book but was challenged by the second half, because it took a turn in tone and became less hijinks/hilarious and far darker/moodier. There were many laugh out loud moments and I was really having a lot of fun with the basic premise, as well as jumping through multiple POVs that were all interconnected. In the end, despite all the comic elements, it asked some really big questions about how humans would realistically cope with a very serious (albeit zany) threat.