Carl Hiaasen

Honey Santana, the bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes," has plans to give telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his mistress a lesson in civility, unware that she is being followed by her obsessed ex-employer Piejack, her one-time drug runner ex-husband Perry, and their twelve-year-old son, Fry, or that they will all intrude on the privacy of would-be recluse Sammy Tigertail. 600,000 first printing.

Nature Girl

Honey Santana -self-proclaimed queen of lost causes - has a Plan. She's working on a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference and dinner-time telemarketers. She's also taking part-time telephonist Boyd Shreve and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress to Dismal Key - one of the Everglades' Ten ThousandIslands - for a gentle lesson in civility. What Honey doesn't know is that lurking in the island's undergrowth is Sammy Tigertail, half-blood Seminole Indian and wholly failed alligator wrestler, with death on his mind; and Honey's deranged co-worker, Louis Piejack, now with most of his fingers surgically mis-attached to the wrong knuckles, and intent on revenge. A holiday to die for? In Hiaasen's extraordinary universe, anything can happen ...

Easy enough. A good romp. Lots of ‘out there’ characters. Definitely not ‘hysterical’ though. Which makes me wonder if there’s something wrong with me….

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Meghan Wallace

Honey Santana is a woman with a Plan. She may be a single mother living in a trailer park with her teenage son; she may have just been sacked from her day job for kneeing an over-friendly co-worker in the balls; she may be an obsessive compulsive with an anger management problem. But she has a Dream: to set up her own eco-tour business, paddling tourists around the Everglades in ocean kayaks. She's also working on a complicated payback on a part-time telephonist who's recently bad-mouthed her, but that's a minor detail. Or is it? The result is a kayaking trip from hell involving an unplanned overnight stay on Dismal Key, one of the Everglades' Ten Thousand Islands, for Honey, her kayaks, the rude telephonist (who Honey means to teach some manners), and his lover. What Honey does not know is that, lurking in the island's undergrowth is Sammy Tigertail, a half-blood Indian, with death on his mind, and Honey's deranged co-worker, Louis Piejack, now sporting fingers which have been surgically misattached to the wrong knuckles, and who is now intent on revenge. A holiday to die for? In Hiaasen's chaotic universe, anything can happen...

Nature Girl

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