Author Gift | FISHBOWL 45: The Unpresidented Parody

 

I received a free digital copy from the author in exchange for my honest review.

Rating | ⭐⭐⭐

I have to laugh about 2016-2020 because if I didn't laugh, all I would do is cry. And don't even get me started on the fight we still have coming here in the next three months.

So, books like this are necessary because the last thing we need is to be depressed and unable to get out of bed. There's no time for that, if we want to stop Project 2025.

That's what makes satire and parodies necessary and this is a fun little gem of a book that certainly does its job.

The main character, Donald, is the president of Fishbowl Motors. He spends his days trying to sell pre-owned luxury cars because they're made here in America and he wants nothing more than loads of money and to make America great again.

Unfortunately, he's not so great at his job and his VP of the company, Mike, let's him know just how close they are to bankruptcy. This doesn't faze him in the slightest because he has a plan, the best plan, to get them back on track. He's always on the hunt for the next big win as he races around NYC trying to make it all happen.

But of course it won't, because he's an idiot and has no idea what he's doing. Sound familiar?

This was definitely a fun way to spend a couple hours, though it was also anxiety-inducing because every word the main character said, I could hear in my head in HIS voice and it just made me so angry because he treated the presidency exactly like one of his many failed businesses and here we are. So, it was also a little stressful. And when he is speaking certain phrases in the book that we've heard trump utter in real life, it definitely adds a big dose of reality. It looks just as silly in text as it sounded when he said it.

The book is written by a father and son team and at no point did the book feel choppy or disjointed. Sometimes that can happen with more than one author, but was not the case here.

There is a lot of clever dialogue that will have you chuckling. He's just so obnoxious and ridiculous and over the top, and then you remember that he is exactly the same in real life, so it doesn't seem so over the top after all. No one really needs to do anything to make him look like a moron, he does that for himself just fine every time he opens his mouth. The authors do a fantastic job using his dialogue and inner thoughts throughout to showcase this.

I liked seeing Donnie get what he had coming to him, and hopefully we see the same thing happen in November. Definitely recommended for those who are exhausted from this fight, who know it's going to get worse before it gets better, but need a breather to laugh at the absurdity of it all before jumping back into the fight.