Reboot

What the book description promised: a “madcap speculative comedy for our era” about a former child actor and the attempted reboot of his short-lived “Dawson's Creek meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer” teen drama series from the early aughts.

What I got instead: a rant about pop culture fandom that somehow links a popular RPG to antisemitic hollow Earth conspiracy theories, and a murder that has little emotional impact because the MC has taken up all of the literary air in the room. Of course, because it's a novel written by a white man, the alcoholic fuck-up MC manages to bag his wealthy, beautiful, and smart former co-star, despite having no redeeming qualities that I could discern.