Sea of Doubt by Jeremy Holden

Hello everyone,

Today I’m here to talk you about this book send to me by Smith Publicity. The book is Sea of Doubt by Jeremy Holden.

To be honest, I didn’t love this book, I liked it. It’s well written, I can’t say it is not, but I didn’t adore the story. I can see from the way to tell the story that the author is a very great writer, I just didn’t love the plot. It might be because it’s not really my genre, or maybe I read this book too fast to fully understand the meaning.

But as I always say, even if I didn’t love the book, that doesn’t mean you won’t love it either. When you read a book, every feeling you feel are personal, so I might not love it, but you might, so give it a chance, and then came back here and tell me what you felt.

I live you the plot:

After leaving behind a brilliant, but emotionally exhausting career in advertising, Mal Thomas wants nothing more than to enjoy the peace and serenity of the home he and his wife share in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. That serenity is interrupted when, seemingly out of nowhere, Mal gets a call that pulls him back into his old world, and on a path to undertaking an extraordinary assignment: Alfredo Baptiste, the world’s most powerful and mysterious industrialist wants Mal to promote the alleged second coming of the Messiah. As Mal and his team of cynical “Mad” men and women confront their own doubts about the validity of Baptiste’s seemingly ridiculous claim that his adopted son Sebastian is this new Messiah, they can’t resist the challenge, and find themselves thrust into a world of greed and revenge. In a fast moving and often sardonic narrative that crisscrosses New York, North Carolina, Miami, and Buenos Aires, Sea of Doubt has its roots in our endless obsession with fame and pop-culture. As Mal’s team develops an unstoppable global campaign, a worldwide media feeding frenzy ensues, causing people to set aside all logic and reason, leading to tragic consequences. Baptiste’s motivation is ultimately revealed in a twisted and unexpected ending as parallel worlds and a seismic conspiracy explode in an ending that will make you wonder how you didn’t see it coming earlier. Sea of Doubt provides a window into human nature and media driven mass persuasion, forcing us to look at consequences of the choices we make. Ultimately Holden shows us how belief in ourselves is what really matters. You will laugh out loud at the absurdity of the challenges that Mal and his team find themselves confronted with, while at the same time being forced to examine the role we all play in enabling the media to shape our thinking, and dictate our lives.

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