Riding the Storm

Rating:
Summary: Decent
Review: Dolphin Diaries is a fun, original series about a girl traveling the world looking for dolphins to watch, study, and enjoy with her family. This book is very descriptive, and the characters are very expressive and emotional...which can be good and bad, depending on what the character is saying, and what point they're trying to make. This series is definately for girls between the ages of eight and eleven or twelve. Any older, and you start noticing unrealistic parts and becoming annoyed with characters that are supposed to be everyones' favorites.

The main thing that bugged me about this book was all of the wild dolphins. Dolphins are friendly and smart, I know, but the author makes the dolphins a tad too human-like and unrealistic. The dolphins always seem to fix everything and amaze everyone...all of them, not just the main few.

The characters can also explain too much, especially the men. Most guys aren't big talkers, but most of the guys in this story are always opening their mouthes.

But if you like dolphins, you'll love this series! It is full of facts about dolphins mixed with a very creative storyline.