If you like crazy you will like Tim Dorsey. I enjoy crazy, but only to a point. Apparently that point is somewhat below Dorsey’s level.
There are about 1,000 characters in this book and about 12 intersecting plot lines – all insane – that come together at the end in the middle of a major hurricane while Key Largo appropriately plays on the DVD player. Some of the crazy scenes include Toto the Weather Dog getting blown out the door of a hurricane-hunter plane, a grandmother who had gunned down a gangster getting blown to bits by 14 pounds of dynamite in retaliation, some drug runners getting taxidermied and a group of Flying Hemingways getting strewn about southwest Florida.
Yes, the book is set in southwest Florida which gives it a local flavor for me. But that isn’t enough to compensate for the over-the-top craziness.
3 out of 10.