I wanted to love this strange whodunit that had such a dark mystery, but I just didn't. It bordered on trying too hard; cramming as much 'nerd' in as possible instead of focusing on the goldmine plot it had. It wasn't terrible. There were funny parts, interesting parts, some even downright intriguing, but not enough to make me love it.

Brighton is famous for many things, but in the 1980s it was the home of cult sci-fi programme Vixens of the Void. When podcaster Wolf Tyler is beaten to death on a live broadcast where he promised to reveal a long-held secret, his friends in the fan community bring together all the stars of the show for one final retrospective - one which they hope will reveal who killed Wolf Tyler, and what it has to do with a suicide that occurred during the filming of the show.

As a huge fan of Nev Fountain's work on Dead Ringers, I was very excited to be able to read this book and it did not disappoint! 5*.

I'm a bit torn on my feelings about this one. It's sort of a love letter to classic sci-fi TV (Doctor Who, Star Trek, Buck Rogers, etc.) mixed with an attempt at a whimsical whodunnit. The story was mainly light, though not quite as funny as I think the author intended, and has very nerdy characters full of nerdy references (a bit overdone at times). The premise of a group of nerds getting the cast of an 80s TV show together to create a documentary for Blu-ray, and at the same time solving the murder of one of their friends and possibly a decades old disappearance related to the show was a unique take. The story has some surprising twists to keep you guessing, though it also has a bit too much overdone, such as the main protagonist instantly falling head=over-heels in love with a much older woman she just met, which felt forced and inorganic to the story for a lot of the book. And the truths behind the mysteries were a bit too over-the-top, though I guess much of the story was kind of over-the-top. I mostly enjoyed it, I just found too many sticking points. 3.5/5*