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Loading... Star Island (edition 2011)by Carl Hiaasen
Work InformationStar Island by Carl Hiaasen
  
Newbery Adjacent (657) Best Crime Fiction (245) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) carolfoisset | Apr 13, 2023 |   ) AliceAnna | Mar 25, 2023 |  ) Castinet | Dec 11, 2022 | ) christyco125 | Jul 5, 2022 | I originally rated Star Island three rather than four stars because it is an “average” member of Hiaasen’s oeuvre. But then this time around I was more aware of how much ahead of the pack of writers of the comic thriller (if that is a thing) Hiaasen’s work is. For example, when was the last time you read, say, a Stephanie Plum story with five well-developed and nuanced characters who weren’t unchanged from their previous instantiations? Star Island has that. Skink is subtly different here than he is in previous stories. We are more aware of how fragile he is and how emotionally vulnerable. Who would have guessed that he could develop a first-sight crush on a twenty-something actress? Then, there is Cherry Pye, the self-absorbed, drugged out pop singer whose performances are all lip-synched and who needs a body double to make public appearances for her when she is in rehab. The satirical portrait of her is unrelenting, yet we feel a bit sorry for her as the victim of her parents who value her mainly as a meal ticket. She is also victimized by an obsessed paparazzo and a bodyguard with a weed trimmer as a prosthetic hand. Captain Hook should be so lucky. Finally, there is Anna, the body double, the novel’s protagonist and the object of Skink’s affection and protection. As such, she becomes the pawn in multiple plots, and we root for her to escape from this bizarrely corrupt Florida crew. 4 stars. ( ) Tom-e | Feb 19, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (nĂ©e Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteenâ??and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her â??undercover stunt double,â?ť Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too â??indisposedâ?ťâ??meaning wastedâ??to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Now the challenge for Cherryâ??s handlers (ĂĽberâ??stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whackerâ??wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherryâ??s publicâ??and from Cherry herself. The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skinkâ??the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swampâ??and now heâ??s heading for Miami to find her . . . Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherryâ??s motley posse does? All will be revealed in this hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane. BONUS: This edition includes an No library descriptions found. |
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