The good
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Some genuinely laugh-out-loud moments, especially early in the book.
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The amusing absurdity you expect from a Douglas Adams book.
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A few interesting, sci-fi (ish) ideas.
The not so good
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Too many half-baked concepts. Ghosts, possession, time travel, spaceships, aliens, electric monks, etc. One or two of them pursued fully could’ve been interesting, but with all of them in the mix, it’s just a jumble.
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The plot is nonsense. I’m a huge fan of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and the plot in that series is also somewhat nonsense, but it somehow comes together into a coherent tale. I didn’t feel that way about this story. This story just seemed to jump around all over the place.
Rating: 3 stars
Yevgeniy Brikman
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