Star Island

by Carl Hiaasen

Hardcover, 337 pages

English language

Published May 2, 2010 by Knopf.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-27258-4
OCLC Number:: 526027106

(16 reviews)

"Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye, a pop star since she was fourteen - and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry's 'undercover stunt double', Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Cherry's handlers want to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret.The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink - the unhinged former governor of Florida - and he's heading for Miami to find her. Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry's motley posse does? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Stay tuned... "-- p. [4] cover.

16 editions

Jon Nixon reviewed Star Island by Carl Hiaasen

Review of 'Star Island' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

I read Hiassen’s first few novels in the 1980s and remember enjoying them a lot. This is the first one I’ve read in thirty years and it was a disappointment. I’m not sure if my taste has changed or it just wasn’t as good. It was readable enough and had the sort of extreme characters I remember, but lacked direction and felt formulaic. I ended up not really caring what happened to any of the characters.

jayvall reviewed Star Island by Carl Hiaasen

Review of 'Star Island' on 'Goodreads'

No rating

marking this DNF. I wanted to like it, but I just couldnt get into it.

Gossamerchild reviewed Star Island by Carl Hiaasen

Review of 'Star Island' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

Cherry Pye is a famous/infamous pop tartlet who has absolutely no talent, except possibly with the number of drugs she can imbibe at once. She's on a fast track to OD'ing (with an interesting commentary on celebrities and drug use-do they REALLY all have emotional issues, or do some of them party simply because they want to?) when her body double (used to make public appearances when Cherry is "indisposed") is kidnapped. This definitely wasn't one of Hiaasen's strongest books, but it was entertaining in how scathing he was of the entertainment industry.