{"id":897,"date":"2010-10-04T20:13:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T04:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2010-10-04T20:13:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T04:13:29","slug":"review-star-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Review: Star Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/byauthor.html#hiaasen_carl\">Carl Hiaasen<\/a> writes some world class light fiction, and <em>Star Island<\/em> is no exception.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fast moving send up of paparazzi and their targets where everyone&#8217;s a bit larger than life and the plot&#8217;s twisty enough to hold your attention without being confusing.\u00a0 Writing such a thing is harder than it looks.\u00a0 Striking the right tone, keeping the characters likeable but interesting, and keeping the plot&#8217;s clockwork running but obscured is all a challenge.\u00a0 Hiaasen does all that and adds the South Florida flavor that he&#8217;s well known for.<\/p>\n<p>All that said, <em>Star Island<\/em> is a trifle.\u00a0 I&#8217;d forgotten I&#8217;d read it until I was looking through my kindle&#8217;s book list to see how far behind I am on these reviews.\u00a0 Fun, while it lasted, though.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Hiaasen writes some world class light fiction, and Star Island is no exception.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fast moving send up of paparazzi and their targets where everyone&#8217;s a bit larger than life and the plot&#8217;s twisty enough to hold your attention without being confusing.\u00a0 Writing such a thing is harder than it looks.\u00a0 Striking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}