Title: It may be Japan, but it's the Japan of western dreamers
Product review: Isaac Adamson's dead Japanese rock god is so obviously and poorly based on hide it's shameful even to fanfiction. His crazed Tokyo mystery are the cliches of an orientalized Japan. Someone else was very right: it's a lot like the hyperfetishized worlds of James Bond, but precisely because neither is real.I really understand that many readers aren't going to care if this is the authentic Tokyo or that Adamson's flat characters and lifeless dead rockstar cult trash is based on beautiful and much better 3-dimensional characters. If all you are looking for is a standardly western contrived mystery with a different setting from what you normally read, I have no doubt you will find an interesting book.However, if you're an ex-pat or have any knowledge of Japan I think you'll be dissapointed, as I really was.
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