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I wasn’t in the mood for something like this and I’m not feeling it right now. It wasn’t bad, I just don’t want to spend time reading it and I don’t mind not knowing how the story ends.

lisas_novel_idea's review against another edition

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dark funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

willi2aw's review against another edition

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adventurous funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Man, I needed a book like this to round the year off. This book has the following:

-setting and feeling similar to Jeff Lindsay's Dexter series
-main character of a police force who was busted down to Food Inspector, and has to solve the case in this capacity
-the casual mystery of a severed arm that is in the rigor mortis stage of flipping the bird (with no deaths/injurys coming out of the woodwork to make this mystery easier to solve)
-voodoo witchery
-and a REAL MONKEY- thats right, the title is not figurative: we get a monkey here!

I have had Carl Hiaasen recommended to me over the years given a certain subset of books that I had professed to enjoying. When I looked him up, I had determined that he would likely not be for me. While he does not hit the comedic notes as strongly as straight fictional authors like Christopher Moore or Graeme Simision, it was definetly an easy and fun ride for me at the end of this year!