Squeeze Me

Carl Hiaasen has done it again--his smart-mouth voice and wit and wisdom subtly capture our times and our foibles. This is a LOL book with a lot of insight, communicated honestly and deftly, never once condescending to the reader.

This is not a book about animals, but it is a great book in which animals play a critical role.

This is the seventh book in Hiassen’s Florida-based Skink series and possibly the best. One of the main characters, Angie Armstrong, is a wildlife wrangler with extraordinary skills which leads to hilarious consequences.

This book also manages intriguing social and political commentary including Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons’ efforts to support a fictional president whose behavior is similar and almost as wacky as our former leader who is apparently running again – I hope someone reads this book to him.

Does it seem to you that life lately has become somewhat insane? The politics, breaking news flashes, social media notifications, all expounding doom and gloom. Do you ever ask yourself what happened to political correctness? If you’re exasperated by political controversy, you should read the satirical mystery, Squeeze Me. I’ve always been a big fan of journalist and novelist Carl Hiaasen. In his latest book, Hiaasen’s taken the current-day craziness to an entirely new level, turning a U.S. president loose in Florida allowing him to wreak havoc with our political system. I highly recommend this book because sometimes all… show more.

It was hard to pick just one book from the Hiaasen oeuvre. So I’ll pick the last one I read. Which I happen to think is one of his best. (Aren’t you impressed I used the word oeuvre?) Hiaasen creates very relatable characters who find themselves in insane situations. Though often the characters are just as crazy. In this case, he has fun with a badass female wildlife wrangler and a monstrous Burmese Python with a taste for Palm Beach high society. (What is it about Florida that makes it so perfect for comedy thrillers?) Squeeze Me also touches on… show more.

I find the books by Florida’s Hiaasen to be hysterical with a clown car of memorable characters. In Squeeze Me he pokes fun at a president and first lady that is not far from the truth. Someone or something has killed a prominent high-society dowager and others. It will take Angie, a pest control specialist to solve the mystery. Laughing just thinking about this book.

Carl Hiaasen was a reporter for a number of newspapers in Florida, where nearly all of his novels take place. In Squeeze Me, the book begins when Kiki Pew, a wealthy Palm Beach dowager, mysteriously disappears at an exclusive charity bash.

The mystery is solved by Angie Armstrong, a wildlife wrangler, but not before the book lampoons everything from the super-rich to the President of the United States at the time the book was written, Squeeze Me is a brilliantly hilarious piece of satire involving politics and pythons.