Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen

A bizarre series of killings in Florida lead a one-time journalist onto the trail of a former colleague. The columnist is conducting a vendetta against tourists spoiling the beauty of the area. His headquarters are somewhere in the Everglades, his gang are a mixed-up bunch.

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Short review: This book was ok. Not great, but not bad. It was humorous, but not really laugh out loud funny. It has rough themes, murder, terrorism, etc. Felt a little dated. Listened to audiobook.

My fling with Hiaasen was brief. Ultra brief. One and done brief. I read Skin Tight earlier this year and liked it, but this one just did not do it for me. Why? Well...

1. For full disclosure, I am sure I was in a better mood when I read the first book. I'm in a funk lately and it's taking a lot to hold my interest right now.

2. This book felt twice as long as Skin Tight. Looking back, I'm shocked to see it's shorter. It just dragged and dragged and took me forever to get through. I almost didn't finish. Kinda wish I hadn't.

3. Since Skin Tight was my first Hiaasen, when the mid-30s main character hooked up with a college-aged woman, I was like like, OK, fine. But then it happened again in this book, and I was so not down for it. In part because it seems like some sad fantasy of the author's, and also because in this particular story, the supposed adult main character shacks up with a 19 year old girl in her bedroom at her parents' house. I don't know. It just icked me out this time around. The story wasn't near good enough for me to let that slide.