Hiaasen Gets Back to Nature

In a review of Carl Hiaasen’s just-off-the-presses Nature Girl, Alan Michael Parker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution decides that Hiaasen’s 11th book is worth reading, even though there “are better Hiaasen books than Nature Girl, specifically Stormy Weather and Skin Tight, where the plots sizzle and the villains fry.” From the review:

Women in Hiaasen’s world occupy strangely idealized roles: Characters who are often openly sexual while persistently naïve and romantic, they sleep with men (or so it seems) to see if the men are worth it. The guys fare far more poorly, and comically so, especially those who have any kind of financial ambition. Greed is the bane of the Hiaasen man.

You can read the entire Atlanta Journal-Constitution review here.