Rating: 5/5
Review:
Another great Serge instalment
This is another extremely enjoyable outing for Serge Storms. He is,
needless to say, as obsessive, hyperactive and psychopathic as ever
and he and Coleman still form a great comic partnership.
This time we have a
story with three converging strands which is probably too complicated
to explain. It’s exciting, though, and takes Serge on a new tour
around Lake Okeechobee with his usual obsessive delight in all
aspects of Florida’s history, culture, flora, fauna and way of life
– which Tim Dorsey manages to make as fascinating as ever. Serge
also, of course, visits punishments on malefactors which are often
Dante-esque in their appropriateness and irony.
It’s crazy, funny,
touching in places and absolutely outrageous in others. There are an
awful lot of laws against what Serge does. We really ought to
disapprove but of course we cheer him on, so there probably ought to
be a law against Tim Dorsey, too – but I’m very glad there isn’t.
This is an immensely enjoyable read and warmly recommended.
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