#50 Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events by Brent Spiner, Jeanne Darst

 

This is a humorous take inspired by real events in Brent Spiner’s life while he was shooting Star Trek: TNG.  I wasn’t going to bother with grabbing the ARC but someone I follow on social media said it was really funny, so I decided to give it a shot.  Brent is being stalked by a fan obsessed with him and calling herself Lal after an episode that data creates a daughter for himself by that name.  Everyone you meet in the book seems to be over the top, his costars, staff on the set, and law enforcement.  Brent is not spared this either with his reactions to the letters and the constant bad dream flashbacks he has that combine the current events with his troubled childhood.  The mystery is solved in the end and over the top as the rest of the book. For me personally the humor was way over the top and I got a bit tired of it by the end of the book. Maybe if I hadn’t read most of it in one sitting it wouldn’t have felt that way to me.  But each to their own and I can see where lots of people would enjoy this more than I did.

 

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss