A sci-fi fantasy mashup that was more delightfully weird than I imagined! It's like "The Devil Went Down to Georgia," but missed his stop and ended up in California's San Gabriel Valley where he ran into a donut shop (as one does) and found himself in the middle of a space opera. Plus: a transgender musical prodigy who is a struggling runaway, a violin virtuoso who is harvesting souls to reclaim her own, an interstellar refugee family whose matriarch must make some galactically difficult decisions. the fate of sentient AI, and so much food and music and craft and more.

My main quibble is that the science fiction side of things felt slightly contrived, like a convenient plot device rather than a well-developed element. But there was *a lot* going on, so I understand the need to keep some things streamlined. And even with that flaw, I love a genre-bender and this was a great one.