Razor Girl (Hiaasen) - Book Reviews

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There’s something unhinged about Hiaasen. In fact, it would be fun to live inside his mind and watch the synapses spark that high-octane imagination of his. Really, how on God’s good earth does anyone come up with a car accident involving a woman driving 60 miles an hour down a highway while shaving her, well…her bikini area. That’s Hiassen's opening shot, and it only gets wackier.  READ MORE
P.J. Adler - LitLovers


Carl Hiaasen's irresistible Razor Girl meets his usual sky-high standards for elegance, craziness and mike-drop humor. But this election-year novel is exceptionally timely, too. It illustrates the dog-whistle effects of bigotry that take the form of entertainment, with a plot that revolves around a Duck Dynasty-type reality show, the sermons delivered by one of its stars and a crazed fan who decides to follow what he thinks are the star's teachings. Mr. Hiaasen—and probably only Mr. Hiaasen—could weave this into a book that's still so funny.
Janet Maslin - New York Times


[A] good part of the pleasure of Razor Girl is in the casual, no-sweat way he sets it all up. Once it's in motion, things happen fast, new people (and animals) keep turning up to play their parts in the comedy, and the whole complicated apparatus gives off a soothing hum, like a smooth-running motor on a fishing boat. You'd think the engine would overheat, but somehow it never does; it doesn't even sputter. The secret is Hiaasen's premium, high-grade comic prose, which keeps everything at the right temperature…By the end of this complicated story, some of his characters get what they want, many do not, an unfortunate few get what they deserve, and the great state of Florida remains just as it was, implacably weird. But, thanks to Carl Hiaasen, it feels kind of renourished.
Terrence Rafferty - New York Times Book Review


[B]reezy, enjoyable sequel to 2013’s Bad Monkey.... [R]eaders will be hoping that Yancy and the other quirky denizens of Hiassen’s Florida will soon be back for another screwball adventure.
Publishers Weekly


Since this is Hiaasen, expect wild characters, starting with Razor Girl (aka Merry Mansfield), perpetrator of car-crash scams and linked to Andrew Yancy, who lost his detective badge after confronting his ex-lover's husband with a Dust Buster but seeks to get it back by solving a murder.
Library Journal


(Starred review.) [An] immensely entertaining wild ride.... Merry Mansfield, the Razor Girl, is sharp, that's for sure, and one of the coolest characters Hiaasen has ever brought to the page.... [F]or anyone with a taste for Hiaasen’s skewed view of a Florida slouching toward Armageddon.
Booklist


(Starred review.) Rejoice.... South Florida's master farceur is back to reassure you that fiction is indeed stranger than truth.... [Hiaasen'] delirious plotting...fits right into his antic world. Relax, enjoy, and marvel anew at the power of unbridled fictional invention.
Kirkus Reviews