Squeeze Me (Hiaasen) - Book Reviews

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If you could use some wild escapism right now, Hiaasen is your guy. In its themes and its wild imagination, Squeeze Me offers some familiar pleasures, akin to a Greatest Hits collection. Anyone who’s read him will know what a prime recommendation that is…. Angie is a tonic, as Hiaasen’s heroines tend to be.
Janet Maslin - New York Times


By the evidence of the scabrous and unrelentingly hilarious Squeeze Me, the Trump era is truly Carl Hiaasen’s moment.… Just dive in and have a wonderful time.
Washington Post


Squeeze Me is funny, but as with Hiaasen’s best work, it’s grounded in genuine outrage over the corruption that increasingly defines American political and cultural life. And it turns out there’s no better place to invoke that outrage than the wealthy swamps of Florida.
New Republic


Pink pearls, pythons and a philandering president add up to a rather unusual Palm Beach social season in Carl Hiaasen’s riotously funny new novel, Squeeze Me…. [Hiaasen] knows and loves Florida and hates what has been done to it as much as anyone I know of, and those passions shape his razor-sharp satirical fiction.
Tampa Bay Times


Squeeze Me is vintage Hiaasen—wry humor, social commentary and satire akin to Jonathan Swift, and all fun.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel


A frothy blend of murder mystery and political satire.… Yes, the humor gets wild and the satire a little outlandish… [but] never loses its buoyancy thanks to Hiaasen’s deftly drawn characters and zingy dialogue. This exuberant elegy for Florida's paved-over paradise performs the near miracle of making us laugh even as we despair.
Kirkus Reviews