It's been a while since I've read a Hiaasen novel. This one is full of his usual wacky characters and full of lol humor. The novel includes a couple of my favorite characters from prior novels: Chemo, the disfigured criminal from Skin Tight with the weed-whacker prosthesis; and Skink, the ex-governor of Florida who lives in the wild and is fighting to try to preserve Florida's natural habitat. In the novel, Ann DeLusia, a "stunt double" for habitually intoxicated and drug-addicted pop star "Cherry Pye", is mistakenly kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo, Bang Abbott. Now, the star's entourage must find a way to rescue Ann, and do it without revealing her identity to the star herself, or the world at large. Chemo is a bodyguard for Cherry who is on the verge of releasing a comeback album and going on tour.
The novel includes some very funny scenes including when Skink hijacks a bus full of real estate investors and ties the main developer to a tree and attaches a spiny sea urchin to his scrotal area. Overall I enjoyed this outing from Hiaasen but not quite as much as some of his other novels including Skin Tight, Lucky You, and Native Tongue.
The novel includes some very funny scenes including when Skink hijacks a bus full of real estate investors and ties the main developer to a tree and attaches a spiny sea urchin to his scrotal area. Overall I enjoyed this outing from Hiaasen but not quite as much as some of his other novels including Skin Tight, Lucky You, and Native Tongue.
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