2018 reading challenge: a book recommended by an person taking the challenge

Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


actually I'd probably do 4.5 if Goodreads allowed half stars.

Like with other books by Scalzi that I have read, I found myself laughing throughout the entire story.

Tom is a young, middle of the pack talent agent in Hollywood. His client list is not that impressive, with his biggest being an actress known for her rolls in basically B movies who has a great appearance but not much going on upstairs.

One day his boss calls him in and tells him to dump all the clients he can because he has a special assignment case that Tom has to focus all his time on. That client... a race of aliens. See the Yherajk, while a peaceful race, have monitored the entertainment broadcasts of Earth and realized that humans have conditioned themselves to believe that humanoid aliens are good and anything that is not humanoid is evil. And unfortunately the Yherajk are gelatinous cubes that mostly communicate through smell (think The Blob with B.O.). So they need help to to be introduced to humanity without being destroyed... and they need a PR guy for that. And that's when Tom's life becomes "interesting".

This is a book that I highly recommend to just about anybody... but if you like sci-fi, cheesey 50's alien movies or John Scalzi's writing, you NEED to read this book.



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