Francis's Reviews > Skin Tight

Ok, this was my first Carl Hiaasen book. So, after reading a couple of chapters, I'm thinking, it's just another typical seventies kind of detective story. Just another writer acting out a testosterone fantasy. Featuring another tough, macho, independent loner who fights large mean disfigured criminals, while standing knee deep in dead bodies and naked women.

But, this guy is a little too eccentric, a little bit, too loose of a cannon. And the sociopath is a little too psychotic and his menacing appearance a little too bizarre and the women are way too approachable and everybody is really vain.

So, it's like I'm supposed to laugh, ... so I do.

So, I started laughing at all of them; the mean intentioned but inept villains, corrupt cops, corrupt politicians, the reality star TV broadcaster, the overly erotic actress, the plastic surgeon, the Florida medical board, the medical industry, the scheming women, but mostly the sheer vanity of it all.

Then I figured it out, its not just a mystery, its about all the things that make this Carl Hiaasen guy mad ..(well that day, anyway). Pretty smart, huh?

Quirky, satirical, over the top and a lot of fun.