The Bromantic Comedies by Erin Mallon Published by Self on January 27, 2021
Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Humor
Length: 1 hour and 22 minutes
Format: Audiobook
Source: Author
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A paintball battleground. A wrestling mat for sleep-deprived new daddies. A feminine product aisle in the local drugstore. These are some of the places where men connect...at least in The Bromantic Comedies.
A compilation of humorous and heartfelt plays exploring what it means to be "masculine" in a world where men are supposed to be tough.
I love listening to audiobooks, and Erin Mallon is one of my favorite narrators so I was very excited to be offered an audiobook copy to review! And the narrators who perform these plays? I LOVE them all, too: Joe Arden, Jason Clarke, Shane East, Lance Greenfield, Teddy Hamilton, and PJ Ochlan. Unfortunately, this really didn’t work for me and I ended up not finishing it. I don’t usually write DNF reviews, but I took notes during each individual play and figure I wouldn’t let them go to waste. And honestly, I don’t think finishing this would have changed my overall opinion anyway. So here we go!
1. Invasion At Man Camp (narrated by Joe Arden and Jason Clarke) – I actually found this to be offensive and sacrilegious. There were some fun sound effects from the paintball range and the narrators were good. As a religious person, however, the satire made me very uncomfortable.
These stories sound awful! I’m impressed you actually finished it. I would have DNF’d it.
I can see where you had the issues with it. Definitely not going to be humor for everyone. Usually when I don’t finish a book I won’t give it a star rating, but that’s me. I was definitely surprised at several parts in several of these stories.
Hi Lisa! I know you’re a major Erin fan. :) As I said above, I don’t usually even write DNF reviews. I find it unfair to rate a book that I haven’t finished. Usually. But when I have such an extreme reaction to a book that I know nothing would change my mind about it, I feel safe rating it even when I haven’t finished it. Nothing was going to save this for me lol, and I wanted to record my thoughts for myself and for any of my followers who might appreciate knowing about some of the book’s content before deciding to read it. :)