Fever Beach - Carl Hiaasen

Fever Beach

ByCarl Hiaasen

  • Release Date: 2025-05-13
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
4
From 754 Ratings

Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Squeeze Me comes a wildly entertaining Florida caper—a razor-sharp send-up of modern American life, packed with misfits and mayhem.

“No satirist arrived at our dystopian moment better prepared than Carl Hiaasen.” —Slate

“[Carl Hiaasen’s] reality with a side of escapism is a blessing for our fragile minds at this time.” —Samantha Irby in The Atlantic

Welcome to Fever Beach, where the sun blazes, the politics are unhinged, and the characters are as volatile as a summer storm.

Dale Figgo is a half-baked crusader with the rare distinction of being kicked out of the Proud Boys—for being too dumb. His latest bad decision? Picking up a hitchhiker on a rainy afternoon while running an errand.

That errand sets off a chain reaction involving Viva Morales, a clever, resilient newcomer trying to rebuild her life post-divorce. She’s renting a room in Figgo’s apartment and working at the Mink Foundation—a philanthropic front with something far darker beneath the surface.

Circling them is Twilly Spree, a hotheaded environmentalist with too much cash and a gift for over-the-top revenge.

When dark money and twisted motives bring their worlds crashing together, Viva and Twilly become unlikely allies. Together, they uncover a tangle of corruption and conspiracy led by a plastic-surgery-loving billionaire couple and a clueless congressman with delusions of grandeur.

In his most outrageous and deliciously funny novel yet, Hiaasen delivers a gleefully chaotic portrait of contemporary madness.

Reviews

  • Fun and Relevant

    4
    By southwindshm
    A fun read.

  • Almost too angry to be entertaining

    2
    By Mark U.
    Carl Hiaasen is angry. He should be. But anger makes polemics, and polemics aren’t funny. A little too much of the book is a screed against far-right politics in the form of characters who are not only extremely far right, but so extremely stupid that they are really just strawmen and not characters at all. Hiaasen would land more of his punches here if he had given his antagonists the shape of real people, whose beliefs and not their intelligence were their undoing. Instead he has fashioned himself as a vengeful god squashing ants.

    Fortunately, Hiaasen’s gift for characterization has not completely abandoned him. The female and male protagonists are classic Hiaasen types, quirky and fun and light on their feet. The same is true for several ancillary characters who come and go.

    The book kind of peters out at the climax, as though Hiaasen himself has grown tired of winning at his own game. But the heroes are victorious and the antagonists get their just desserts all the same, so he does put a bow on things. But it seems a bit halfhearted, especially since the antagonists all meet, more or less, the exact same fate.

    If Apple allowed half stars, I’d give it two-and-a-half. Not good enough to be a must-read, but not lacking enough in worthwhile bits to be a must-skip. But they don’t, so I give it two stars, as the good stuff doesn’t quite tip the balance of the parts that don’t work as well.

  • Fever beach

    3
    By olddue1
    It was a bit absurd at times. I enjoyed it just for fun. I think I have enjoyed his prior books more fully. His original hero was an improbable ex governor of the state of Florida if I remember correctly. This was a bit over-the-top with clichésbut still fun thank you.

  • Another great read by the best.

    5
    By Tasunka OG
    No one better to entertain than Carl Hiaasen!

  • Cliché filled romp

    2
    By JFla1413
    A book filled with a mass of cliche’s, like a tumor produced by a steroid-addicted author.
    Non-sensical, urgently topical, lividly stereotypical and almost predictable.
    Wouldn’t spend money on it. But would read it on a boat with nothing to do but ice my back.

    The only thing left undone was how the father of the lousy congressman would end up drowned on the beach of a Caicos island for having paid for an asassination. (You’ll have to read it to understand that bit.)
    Every other anti-hero in the book ended up cleanly dead or bankrupt. I’m thinking the author had met his quota of words required by the publisher and just stopped spewing drivel.
    Oops, too strong?

  • Classic Carl Hiaasen

    5
    By un grand cygne
    Typical Hiaasen political and environmental satire with his outrageous characters and events. The problem is, these days they don’t seem so outrageous compared to actual characters and events.

  • Stupid

    1
    By bzjsj!:
    The worst book I have ever read

  • Fever Beach

    5
    By Reader with standards
    Another great book, as it always is with this offer. The only regret is that it is so hard to tell the satire from non-fiction given the state of our nation.

  • Too TDS

    5
    By 213MAM
    Very predictable. All MAGA people are morons.

  • Fever Beach

    5
    By Pogoever
    It ticked all the boxes for me. 💗

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