Year Zero by Rob Reid
I give this book a 4.
This is a very entertaining read full of laughs and, oddly
enough, a great deal of factual information I never knew. This story is so
absurd that I’m not quite sure how to describe it.
Apparently advanced aliens, far across the galaxy, have been
craving and downloading earth music because it’s the one thing the insufficient
human race is actually good at (and the rest of the known universe is not).
Then one day the superior aliens, through their mastery of legal principles,
realize that they owe the people of earth an innumerous about of royalties or
something like that. While some aliens have decided to settle the matter in
court, others have decided to just eliminate the problem all together. That’s
where the intergalactic misadventures of lawyer Nick Carter (not to be confused
with Backstreet Boy, Nick Carter) begin.
To say that the characters of this story are kooky would be
an understatement. My favorite thing about the story isn’t technically apart of
the story. I love the footnotes. The footnotes of this book are like a running
commentary in a movie. They are informative, hilarious, and pleasantly
distracting. Eventually I had to stop reading them to finish the story and then
went back to read them in perspective. I guess if you’re not really a reader,
this may not sound appealing.
All aliens aside, anyone who likes music will love this
book. It’s also good for a laugh.
This review has been posted to GoodReads.
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