🎧 Book review: Sliding off by Alejandro del Mar

Not going to ⭐ rate this one
Genre ~ dark socio-political comedy
Publication date ~ September 26, 2022
Page Count ~ 343
Audio length ~9 hours 54 minutes
Narrator ~ Alejandro del Mar
POV ~ multiple 3rd
Featuring ~ debut, satire

My review:

One of my favorite things about blogging is helping to spread the word for debut authors, even if their work is in a genre that I wouldn’t typically read. I feel this one would appeal to those that do enjoy political aspects, whether in fiction or non fiction books, and even in our current environment. The dark humor helps lighten the mood without taking a side.

The main characters are well developed and thoroughly described. Jules, Nephi and Eldon join a social media platform where anything goes. It touches on politics, homelessness, religion, among others.

Overall, this one wasn’t for me, but there were some moments that gave me a chuckle, like this one ~ Tatiana was apparently upset that Jules broke up with her, so she programmed Neil Diamond to play on his devices at random times 😂

Narration notes:
He did a fine job narrating overall, but it sounded different then how my audio books usually do. I don’t know if it’s because I listened via dropbox, which is the first time I’ve done so. 2x was the highest I could listen and it was still too slow for me. There were some lengthy pauses, too.

*Thanks to the author for sending me an audio copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

Add to your never ending TBR  ~ goodreads

Book blurb:

Jules Burnside is a hipster barista who monologues about indie music and participates in riots more to destroy property than effect civil justice. Nephi Jensen is a young Latter-Day Saint who believes God called him to be a superhero to deliver sandwiches to the homeless. Eldon Glenn is a big-headed lawyer, who seeks election as city commissioner in a backwater Kentucky town, by pandering to the locals with promises of bringing a drive-thru window—staffed with singing and dancing dwarfs—to the local Wal-Mart supercenter.

To bolster their online presence and further their personal agendas, Jules, Nephi and Eldon unwittingly join a social media platform—conceived by tech savvy Lilac Bassett and her associates—to incite conflict based on political identity, inducing users to challenge each other in a physically violent sport. The social media platform and sport soon spiral out of control with violence, destruction and mayhem.

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