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Skink Series · Book 6
Ann DeLusia’s job is to appear in public as pop star Cherry Pye whenever the singer is too impaired to show up. When a photographer kidnaps Ann instead of Cherry, the singer’s handlers have to rescue her without exposing the arrangement.
From the author’s blurb
“All will be revealed in this hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane.”Read the full description at Author book description, Carl Hiaasen
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What makes it funny?
Cherry’s comeback requires lip-synching someone else’s singing. Her bodyguard Chemo has replaced a lost hand with a weed-whacker, an unusually literal addition to celebrity security.
The comedy at work
The kidnapping gives everyone a real emergency while they keep tending a manufactured public image. The farce follows people whose livelihoods depend on maintaining the illusion of Cherry’s competence.
Try this if…
Celebrity publicity and predatory paparazzi take the blows in this broad crime satire. Its mistaken-identity plot gives the mockery a rescue deadline.
Good to know
Drug and alcohol abuse, sexual behavior and kidnapping are prominent. The publisher quotes a review recommending it as a starting point for new Hiaasen readers, despite Skink’s appearances in earlier books.
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More in Skink Series
The series continues with one more book on our shelf, after this Book 6.
Book 4Sick Puppy
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