Year Zero

The book started off very well, with the encounter of an ordinary human lawyer named Nick Carter met with two alien beings. They represented some sort of intergalactic council that have decided that earth's music made it worthy of notice to the rest of the universe, and now wanted to purchase the license to all of its music.

The story started to crumble in the very next scene, where the protagonist met up with his cousin in a restaurant where an alien controlled parrot started to ask him what the two other ones wanted with him. This scene was very confusing and unamusing. Sudenly it was a common thing for aliens to come to Earth.

The next scene has him go home and invite his hot neighbor over, because she has a surprise birthday present to him. Listening to the author to describe how infatuated Nick was with her felt a little cringy and cliché. Then she said she had a new man in her life, that turned out to be a cat. And the present was actually just a bottle of wine. And then an alien (another one!) shows up and Nick acts as that is just the most normal thing in the world.

Those sort of things resembles a lot like The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is fine, but it was played out SO much better in Douglas Adams's book. Plus I did not like any of the humor so for far, besides the opening scene.

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