Dead Brilliant
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Dying is the best way to revive your musical career … even if you’re not really dead.
It’s all slipping away from Roc Molotov – his band, his girlfriend, and worst of all, his ability to play the game demanded by the star-making machinery of the music business. When the best record he’s ever made is about to pass unnoticed, his oldest friend and manager, Uncle Strange, concocts the perfect scheme. Roc will fake his death, on MTV, in front of millions of viewers, assuring massive success on his latest project and the ability to create a body of "posthumous" songs to feed the grieving fans and satisfy his still-active artistic imagination. The plan works to perfection, but the ever-restless Roc finds that being dead has its limitations in this novel that’s sex, death, and rock n’ roll, played in a satirical key.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was very different from something I would normally read but I quite liked it! It's about the music industry in Hollywood and therefore there is more adult language and adult situations than I normally prefer but they didn't seem out of place in this context.It's definitely a tongue-in-cheek look at the music industry with plenty of fun. It's based on the idea that a rock star's music often makes more money after he's dead than when he's alive so Roc Molotov kills himself off to make more money after his CD sales start to fall. An original plot line which is sometimes hard to find. The characters are quirky and many are caricatures but the main family of characters are well-drawn and I could relate to them. Besides the scenes showing the wild side of the music industry and the cut-throat side, there were sweet human moments that left me with a good feeling about the author and the bookI received this from Netgalley and I appreciated the chance to read it.
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Dead Brilliant - Christopher Ward
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