Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

The story that I read was Chomp by Carl Hiaasen. The story takes place in Florida. The main characters are Mickey Cray, Wahoo Cray, Derek Badger, and Tuna Gordon. In the very beginning Mickey gets a concussion by a frozen Iguana falling out of a tree. He also gets bad headaches and double vision.

Mickey and Wahoo have a zoo in their backyard because they do commercials with their animals. Later the phone rings and Wahoo picks it up. It is a job offer for a big big TV show called Expedition Survival!.  It is about a person named “Derek Badger” and he survives in the wild without any food or water and he tries to kill animals for food. Mikey was supposed to be the animal wrangler and they would get $1000 a day. So they took the job and when Wahoo said $1000 a day it cured Mickey. “My headache’s gone!” mickey announced.

Wahoo said “No way.”

“All those pills the doctors made me swallow,they didn’t do a darn thing.Then all of the sudden I wake up and boom,it’s like a miracle.”Mickey shrugged.

But Wahoo had a theory that his father had been cured by “one thousand dollars a day”. And at the middle and end of the book a lot of crazy things happen like Derek gets bit by a bat and Derek goes missing and Tuna’s crazy drunk father comes and tries to take tuna away but he shoots a person named Link in the back, shot one of Mickey’s toe off and went to prison.

I liked  this book because of all of the surprises and the language that I haven’t heard A surprise was when when Tuna’s father came to where everyone was. Another surprise was that Derek Badger went missing for a while and actually survived because Derek can’t really survive without any food or water. A piece of language that I didn’t know was “glint”  It means sparkle like “the glint in his dad’s eyes made Wahoo uneasy. I think that a reader that doesn’t expect things will like this book.

I will rate Chomp 4 stars. ****