My bf had read this book and loaned it to me when we initially started dating. A year and nearly seven months later and I have finally gotten to it. I kept putting this book down which for me isn’t usually the best sign but in the end I kept with it. Hiaasen had me smirking as wacky hijinks occurred and at the center was murder and a frozen arm, flanked by a cop trying to get back on the force and more cliches and […]
Definitely not a positive image for Florida
Carl Hiaasen’s Bad Monkey reminded me a lot of Dave Barry’s books — lots of crazy shit going down, kooky people, weird coincidences, and of course, it all takes place in Florida. I was not quite blown away with the plot of Bad Monkey, but the dialogue was extremely well-written and witty. I loved the two main characters — Yancy and Rosa — based entirely upon their conversations with each other. “Miami … the floating-human-body-parts capital of America.” Andrew Yancy is a disgraced Floridian police officer — I’ll let you […]