Review: No mystery, humor falls flat
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
There may have been some potential in having a noir parody featuring aliens, but this story falls painfully flat.  First of all, the author doesn't present hardly any information about the aliens and their society.  They appear to live and talk just like humans, but they look different enough to require costumes to wear when they visit Earth.  So what do they look like?  We never know, because the author never bothers to tell us.  Apparently they do have all the same types of aquatic life that we have on Earth, because we're frequently told about the seafood that they eat on their home world.The humor also falls flat -- it's of that awkward type where you know the author thinks something is funny but it just . . . isn't.