A review by chicleeblair
Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff

3.0

Not a bad book in and of itself--although I didn't like the end much--but one thing that really stood out to me, and indeed made me dock it a star, was a factual error. The character mentions a comic written by "a bunch of members of The Dresden Dolls." Not only have the Dols only ever had two members, but the character is supposed to be a music expert. I'd accept it from anyone who wasn't supposed to be a comic book lover, and music-expert. I think I know where it came from--Dolls front woman Amanda Palmer once wrote a graphic novel with friend Jason Webley, never a Doll himself--but that doesn't excuse the inaccuracy. I thought maybe because they're less mainstream, but my sixty-four year-old mother knew who the Dresden Dolls were years before I got into them through Amanda's music.

It's a small glitch that most people wouldn't notice, I get that, but it really made me take the entire book less seriously.