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Bad Monkey
Bad Monkey
Author: Carl Hiaasen
ISBN-13: 9780446556156
ISBN-10: 0446556157
Publication Date: 2/24/2015
Pages: 350
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 16 ratings
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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4 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed Bad Monkey on + 11 more book reviews
Fantastic characters, locales, and storytelling. Page turning action combined with truly humorous situations. My first Carl Hiaasen novel, and certainly not the last.
legz avatar reviewed Bad Monkey on + 509 more book reviews
Yancy is a police detective demoted to restaurant food inspector while the media circus around his "incident" with married girlfriend that caused his removal dies down. On the down low he is asked to deliver a limb found at the beach & transfer it to another county to avoid tourists leaving. A mystery ensues about who's arm is it, a few murders, travel to the islands, a monstrosity house being built next door to Yancy, & way too many characters and side stories to make this book smooth. I had to go back a page to see if I missed something as the story skipped around. It did eventually tie up some loose ends toward the end but was unsatisfying. I liked the Yancy character and his new girlfriend but half of the other characters could've been eliminated. I also had a hard time trying to figure out the "island" talk & it was irritating to decipher (no mon, why I do sum ting like dot. bey, I gon pudda black coyse on your soul black as det) The book had a lot of funny spots in it and it was clean with no descriptive sex scenes and not a lot of foul language so I upped it a star
reviewed Bad Monkey on + 16 more book reviews
Hilarious, note this is precursor to 'razor girl'.... better to read this first. Then that
ClareS avatar reviewed Bad Monkey on + 87 more book reviews
Hilarious !