Book: The Hotel Avocado
Author: Bob Mortimer
Genre: Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Humour

I started this as a physical copy, but at the recommendation of someone, moved to an audiobook around 20% of the way in.

It was a far more enjoyable experience, narrated by the fabulous cast of Bob Mortimer, Sally Phillips, Bob Whitehouse and Julie Maisey. It felt like I was listening to one of Bob’s tall tales – and this had his typical deadpan humour, odd naming conventions and metaphorical buffoonery that makes him such a hilarious man.

But. And there is a but. It just wasn’t a very good story. Not compared to the first. It lost a lot of it’s charm, and I found specific actions from certain characters a little bit, well, shitty. It made me lose interest in characters that I’d liked up to this point in both the Hotel Avocado and The Satsuma Complex.

I appreciate that some things are just people being people and we are all flawed, but it left me with a bit of a salty taste in my mouth.

It’s not bad, but not great. It left me feeling a little underwhelmed, but glad I’d tied up the story from the first book.

3.1/5.0