{"id":20331,"date":"2013-07-26T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=20331"},"modified":"2013-07-05T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T20:34:43","slug":"bad-monkey-by-carl-hiaasen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/bad-monkey-by-carl-hiaasen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"badmonkey\"<\/a>I have an embarrassing admission…<\/p>\n

I’ve never read anything by Carl Hiaasen before. \u00a0I’ve never read Hoot<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0or Skinny Dip<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>or\u00a0Native Tongue<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0And I honestly didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I picked up his newest novel,\u00a0Bad Monkey<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0With reviewers calling the novel a “misadventure” and described Hiaasen as a “premier humorist”, \u00a0my expectations were high. \u00a0I was not disappointed.<\/p>\n

Bad Monkey<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>introduces Andrew Yancy, a former Miami Police detective and soon to be former Monroe County sheriff’s officer, who now spends his days counting the cockroaches in local restaurants as a restaurant inspector. \u00a0Wanting to leave behind his “roach patrol” duties, Yancy believes he may have found his way back onto the force when a tourist fisherman pulls in a human arm and the scandal adverse county sheriff declares the arm’s loss an accident. \u00a0Yancy believes that there is more going on than meets the eye, so he begins his own investigation.<\/p>\n

There is a lot going on in this book, but it never feels weighted down or overly ambitious. \u00a0The stories weave together in a way that feels natural, and Yancy is perfectly imperfect in the way of all the best anti-heroes. \u00a0 Employing a dark sense of humor, Bad Monkey<\/strong><\/em> is moralistic without ever coming off as preachy and weird without forgetting reality. \u00a0Revenge fantasy at it’s best,\u00a0Bad Monkey<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>is a seriously fun read. \u00a0I feel kind of lucky that I have such a backlog of Hiaasen books to read until his next book is released.<\/p>\n

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I have an embarrassing admission… I’ve never read anything by Carl Hiaasen before. \u00a0I’ve never read Hoot\u00a0or Skinny Dip\u00a0or\u00a0Native Tongue. \u00a0And I honestly didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I picked up his newest novel,\u00a0Bad Monkey. \u00a0With reviewers calling the novel a “misadventure” and described Hiaasen as[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[445,148,2331,165,333],"class_list":["post-20331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-crime-fiction","tag-environment","tag-florida","tag-humor","tag-mystery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5hV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20331"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331\/revisions\/20373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}