This book had me lol-ing more than once. The world of aliens Valente spins up is vast and ridiculous. I enjoyed the idea that aliens might be both plentiful and much weirder and certainly more glam than we expect. I had to keep a running list of the alien species she introduced so I could keep track when they were reference later (there definitely needed to be a glossary). The story of this big universe of euro-vision like aliens takes up the bulk of the book, leaving little room for the actual plot, which is pretty slight. I liked the characters, but unfortunately the only woman is fridged (kinda), which was not cool.