Space Opera

I had sky high expectations of this book, how can you not when it advertises itself as a mix of Hitchiker's Guide and Eurovision. But more than either of these it reminded me of a rather obscure old anime called Legend of Black Heaven, wherein a retired rock musician is approached by an alien to save the world with music....and by it reminds me I mean it's literally the same premise.

The Hitchikers Guide comparison is fair, though I found it nowhere as funny (the book couldn't even get a chuckle out of me sadly). The actual space eurovision part could have worked if the book was actually about that, it's actually more about some ex-musicians moping about about how great they used to be and how they're all going to die mixed in with some Hitchikers-guide style outtakes about other alien species and history. The different parts never connected in a meaningful way. I kept reading along for surely once the competition started for real it would be amazing....It was, well, not BAD, it was just kind of there, and didn't even last that long.

Which is also how I feel about the whole book. Not BAD just..doesn't do justice to it's premise.