i'm working on my actual review, but basically it boils down the whole book i couldn't help think "this would be an amazing story if Carl Hiaasen wrote it." Maybe it's the Florida start (and maybe it's b/c my introduction to Hiassen was the hilarious book Strip Tease), but I think he had taken the supplied details and worked it into a story it would have been exponentially better.
i'd say if "mary sue" was ever meant to be applied as a criticism to a story... it belongs here. it's a thinly veiled memoir, one that's easily seen through even to someone who knows very little about her life (I had to actually check to see if she was on Home Improvement, b/c I immediately recognized the "disguised" show and star names and was confused b/c i didn't remember her on the show).
probably a good bit of the sex as well without the fleshy bits
i'd say if "mary sue" was ever meant to be applied as a criticism to a story... it belongs here. it's a thinly veiled memoir, one that's easily seen through even to someone who knows very little about her life (I had to actually check to see if she was on Home Improvement, b/c I immediately recognized the "disguised" show and star names and was confused b/c i didn't remember her on the show).