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‘Foam unzipped the waves. I saw a crescent fin, a glass-boulder forehead. The dolphin had come back.’

Swimming with dolphins is said to be the number one thing to do before you die. For 12-year-old Michael, it very nearly is. A secret boat trip has gone tragically wrong, and now he lies unconscious in hospital.

But when Michael finally wakes up, he seems different. His step sister Bibi is soon convinced that he is not who he appears to be. Meanwhile, in the ocean beyond Bermuda’s reefs, a group of bottlenose dolphins are astonished to discover a stranger in their midst – a boy lost and desperate to return home.

Bermuda is a place of mysteries. Some believe its seas are enchanted, and the sun-drenched islands conceal a darker past, haunted with tales of lost ships. Now Bibi and Michael are finding themselves in the most extraordinary tale of all.

Praise for ‘The Storm Bottle’:

‘I loved it… A real winner.’ L A Weatherly, author of the Angel Trilogy

‘The Storm Bottle is that rare thing; a story that is a story, rather than something trying to fit in with the trend that publishers happen to believe in this month.’ The Bookwitch

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B8V1OTQ
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Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 12 maggio 2013

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Two things attracted me to The Storm Bottle. Firstly, the cover - gorgeous, isn't it? - and, secondly, I was intrigued to read a paranormal fantasy about dolphins. I mean, everything else has been done, right? I think all that's left are fleas, sea cucumbers and . . . okay, okay, you get my meaning. Dolphins are fresh and new.

I was not disappointed by Nick Green's efforts. If I were to sum up this book in a few words, I'd say: Spellbinding. Imaginative. Different. Unexpected delight. Huge fun to read.

According to Nick Green, his inspiration came the day he was walking along an English beach where he spotted a group of swimmers playing in the waves with a pod of completely wild dolphins. Without stopping to think, he threw himself into the water to join the fun. What resulted is a middle grade - don't agree with that, I think this book has great cross-over appeal - fantasy capitalizing on the mystique of the Bermuda Triangle where just about anything can happen. (It's time someone did something with that Bermuda Triangle myth!)

As it turns out, for Bibi and her stepbrother Michael anything was about the worst thing imaginable.

Not to give away spoilers . . . After an accident at sea, Michael and a dolphin named Rodrigo end up changing places. Michael, now a dolphin, is thrust into the pod know as the Privateers who - amongst other things - chase dolphin girls around the Bermuda seas. Rodrigo finds himself locked in Michael's body, trying to make sense of life in a human family on land. It's left to twelve-year-old Bibi to sort out the mess. This makes for a great adventure, with a lethal - and wholly unexpected - twist in the tail.

The book is narrated by both Bibi and Michael and each bring their own charm to the story. Bibi is wonderful, so dry and astute - wise beyond her years - and I loved being in her head. She gave me lots of chuckles. Michael, AKA Rodrigo, has a tougher time of it in the story. Being a human trapped in a dolphin's body, he has a totally unique view of the world. I think he played his role perfectly. I felt for him with every tail flick that brought him closer to home. And the real Rodrigo? His pain and confusion is brilliantly portrayed. This is Bibi narrating before she learns that Rodrigo is now occupying Michael's body:

"Shall I make you comfy on the sofa? I'll put the telly on."
Michael looked horrified. Bermuda TV can have that effect. I screwed up my courage. "No, come to my room," I said. "Tell me about those freaky tests they made you take."
I patted my bed. His eyes went circular. Quickly I checked (I had a huge centipede get in once) but there was nothing on my duvet except its printed map of Bermuda.
"You can sit on it," I told him.
But he lowered himself towards the carpet. I slipped a bean-bag under him and he sat like a ragdoll, looking over my room as if everything was new to him, my books, the stereo, the gleaming bottles. He could hardly take his eyes off my deep blue curtains.
Gripping my hand seemed to calm him.
"I thought-" He snatched that strange gulping breath. His words came slowly, yet urgently, like Morse code. "At first I thought this was all a bad dream. A horrible dream I couldn't su-su-surface from. But it's not, is it?"
"No, Michael. It's not a nightmare. You're awake. You're safe."
He leaned close and I heard his terror.
"I am not Michael."

And then I had to turn the page to find out more . . .

Now, what about the world building?

Nick Green's under-sea world was one of the great strengths of his book. His dolphins were so consistent and so . . . fishy. Unlike many other paranormal/ shifter books I've read, these dolphins were not just human voices and opinions wrapped in fins and blowholes. They are 'real/' and their concerns exactly what I'd imagine dolphins worrying about.

And talking about concerns, like the ocean, this book has many layers. I really enjoyed the way Nick Green explored the relationships. Step siblings, Bibi and Michael had never really clicked until the accident. Then it's too late. Bibi and her father have an interesting, if remote relationship, which undergoes a massive change. Bibi's dad and her stepmother's new marriage is also put to a grave test. And those are just the human perspectives. The interactions below the water are even more intriguing. Definitely a strength of this book.

All told, I thought The Storm Bottle was amazing, and I would recommend it to anyone who loves an exciting paranormal fantasy. Obviously, given the age of the characters, there's no romance, but the book really didn't need it to be enchanting.

So how many stars? The Storm Bottle is definitely a Five Dolphin Pod read.

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A beautiful, invigorating fantasy

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 28 agosto 2013

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I've heard consistently good things about Nick Green's novels, The Cat Kin: 1 - and I know him to be a witty blogger - but this is the first book of his I've read.

It's a beautiful, transporting fantasy, set in Bermuda, The heat, the seas, the colours and scents, the sea-breezes of Bermuda are a constant, and wonderfully evoked. I've never been to Bermuda, but after reading this book, I felt I had a sense of it. There's one phrase, describing the aftermath of a tropical storm - the `shaken tin-foil glitter' of the bright sun shining on the wet island. I could see it.

The book concerns characters who are out of place. The engaging heroine, Bibi, has felt out of place for her entire life. She's a tom-boy, and bound up with the grief she feels for her dead mother is the knowledge that she was never the girlie-girl her mother wanted.

Her relationship with her rich father is amiable rather than close. So long as they can talk about sailing and boats, they get along fine. But Bibi rather scorns her father's big, expensive boat. She prefers the little sailing boat belonging to her Bermudan friend, Hal, because sailing it brings her closer to the winds and currents. She loves Bermuda and its seas passionately.

Her father has married again, and this marriage has brought Bibi a step-brother, Michael. He has been ripped from his scholarship-pace at choir-school, from his friends, from Britain - and is truly out of place in hot, bright Bermuda. He is sulky and resentful.

Bibi does her best to befriend him, trying to interest him in sailing and her pirate games, but he is unresponsive until, out sailing on Hal's boat, they see a wild dolphin. Michael is so excited by the thought of swimming with it that Bibi almost likes him. Both of them dive in and, to her surprise Bibi, who has swum all her life, finds that Michael is the stronger swimmer.

This leads him into trouble, however. Despite Hal's warnings, he ventures too far from the boat and is caught in the current.

Bibi thinks he is lost when, but, `Foam unzipped the waves and Michael's pale body washed up into the sunshine...[Bibi] saw a crescent fin, a glass-boulder forehead. The dolphin...had returned.'

But the dolphin has done more than return Michael to the surface. To save his life, it has exchanged souls with him.

If you can make this imaginative leap, whether young adult or older adult, you will love this book. If you can't, you probably won't. If you think all fantasy is daft, then you'll think this daft too.

Fantasy is like any other genre. It can be written simplistically, as nothing but wish-fulfillment or gimmickry - and that writing tends to be daft, whether it's written in the Romance genre, or Crime, Science-Fiction or Thriller.

Or, as with any other genre, Fantasy can be written thoughtfully. It can be used as a way of alienating us from the everyday world we take for granted, so that we have to re-examine and re-evaluate it. Storm Bottle is one of these.

After the accident, the book follows Bibi on shore, and Michael in his new life.

On shore, in hospital, Michael is in a coma, and when he wakes, his confusion is assumed to be caused by brain-damage. His desperate mother smothers him with protective love. His new step-father withdraws, unable to cope - just as he withdrew from Bibi after her mother's death, becoming an amiable but distant workaholic.

Only Bibi tries to understand the boy on his own terms. It is she who realises that the boy is not a brain-damaged Michael, but someone else altogether.

Meanwhile, out at sea, Michael is also coming to terms with a whole new body and way of life. He finds himself swimming with a dolphin pod - two males, Pedro and Sancho, and an injured female, Jill, who is considered, by the males, to be their `property.'

The story may have fantastical elements, but the account of dolphin life is based on reality. These dolphins are not the cute, winsome mascots of New Age Harmony seen on a thousand posters, mouse-mats, t-shirts, pendents etc. They are predators, hunting and killing prey, and being hunted as prey by other predators.

They are intelligent, and they communicate - their clicks and whistles are translated into words for our benefit. But their intelligence is mostly used for catching fish, fighting with other dolphins, escaping from sharks and killer-whales - and capturing females, because the more females a pod has, the more status it has.
The chapters about Michael's dolphin life are fascinating and often beautiful. The dolphins call themselves `rainvoices', because the sounds they make are like rain falling on the ocean's surface. They teach Michael how to use his dolphin-body's `voice-eye', or sonar.

Jill, the injured dolphin, is the sister of the dolphin Michael has become, and looks to him for food she can no longer catch for herself. Her injury has been caused by a fishing line which has wrapped itself round her tail, drawing tighter and tighter until it has sliced off a fin. Michael, with his human understanding, is able to see how to unravel it, and saves her from further injury - and from the endurance of constant pain.

Whereas his step-sister on land, Bibi, was tough and, in many ways, braver and more knowledgable than him, he now finds himself with an adoptive sister who, though more knowledgeable about life underwater, is also more helpless. In taking over as her protector and helper, he becomes close to her. In short, the sulky boy has to dolphin-up - but doesn't always succeed. After all, as the dolphin Jill observes, `You are just a child, aren't you?'

Michael seeks a way to his own body and life on land. The other dolphins don't know how to help, but lead him on a journey to consult `The Tidings.' Michael understands this as some sort of archive, and is puzzled as to how such a thing can exist - until he discovers it to be the long, long memories of Humpback Whales, known to the dolphins as `Deep Singers.'

`The humpack whale was too far ahead to see, even with his voice eye. Yet its song built majestic architectures around him, pillars of tone and melodious arches, bearing the weight of words.'
The whales remember a similar exchange of souls in the distant past, and give Michael hope that he can return to his own body.

Meanwhile, on land, Bibi and Rodrigez, the dolphin-in-human-form, have been devised a way to send a message to Michael, using `a message in a bottle.' Bibi sacrifices her beloved collection of antique bottles, throwing them into the sea with a one-word clue. They hope that the sea-borne Michael will find one of the bottles, decipher the clue, and so meet them at a certain cove where, perhaps, they can swop bodies again.

But their plans are disrupted when Michael's mother leaves Bibi's father. She intends to take her son home to Britain.

This forces the two young people to run away, and camp out on one of Bermuda's off-shore islands, while the police search for them.

The finale brings together dolphins, human children and a great storm. I don't think it will be giving away too much to say that Michael succeeds in returning to his human body - but Nick Green bravely resists the neat ending. He goes beyond that, and provides a more original ending, but one that is right for the book, and the characters.

A beautiful, invigorating fantasy, full of sea and sun, and deep, cool waters.

But also a fantasy which, by distorting reality, looks at how, if you are at odds with your surroundings, and feel you don't fit, you can grow into your situation - or, with courage, break free of it and follow your own way.

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Dolphins and magic!!!!

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 9 maggio 2013

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So this book is very different from what I normally read. This book is DEFINITELY geared towards the younger YA, however even adults can enjoy this tale.

Each chapter is told from a different Point Of View, this makes it easy to follow along with whose head your in. I would have to say that I preferred Bibi's POV, but I didn't mind switching to Michaels head at all.

The characters are well developed and relatively believable. We have a relatively typical situation in the beginning with a newly formed family, complete with step-siblings. I found it odd that the father kept referring to Michael as Bibi's "Step-Brother", as a mother of a blended family we NEVER say Step anything. We are one family now with all that entails. I guess I found it a bit disquieting that he would make sure everyone knew that Michael wasn't HIS son. But other than that one issue that I personally had, I'd have to say the rest of the characters are very likeable and easy to understand.

I would recommend this book to anyone ages 7 and up, there are a few larger words which a 7 year old may need help with if they are just starting chapter books, but it is easy enough to read to a younger child. And the story itself is a wonderful tale that can open up the discussion of swimming with dolphins and many other topics which I simply won't go into or it will spoil the book for you.

Personally I love happy endings and this one has a unique twist to it. I won't say what it is. But some will like it others won't. just depends on your own perspective I suppose. That being said I can honestly say this book was enjoyable to read and perfect for a middle grade book.

Details/Disclaimer: Review copy was provided to me in exchange for a fair and honest review. The free book held no determination on my personal review.

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C. J. Busby

Gripping adventure story

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 6 aprile 2013

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I thoroughly enjoyed The Storm Bottle - in fact, I read it under the covers in bed, just as if I were ten, not wanting to go to sleep till I knew what was going to happen next. It's a perfect adventure story - with the twist that two of the main protagonists are part-human, part-dolphin, and mirror images of each other - one, a dolphin trapped in a human body, the other, that same human trapped in the dolphin's body. Their link is Bibi, the girl who is our narrator, and who witnessed the moment of the transfer when her step-brother almost drowned, trying to swim with dolphins, and was brought back to consciousness strangely unable to speak or do the simplest thing for himself. The book really takes off from this point, where we switch back and forth between the attempts of the misplaced dolphin, Rodrigo, to learn to be human, along with Bibi's gradual understanding of what's happened, and the separate adventures of the boy Michael, learning to swim, fish and fight with Rodrigo's ex-pals. I loved the dolphin bits - the idea of the dolphins as a little like swashbuckling pirates with Spanish accents - and although dolphin society was portrayed as exceptionally sexist (maybe it is, who knows?), the female dolphin character who befriends Michael is a very strong presence. In the background are a number of family tensions: Bibi and her step-brother loathe each other, their parents having only recently married, and the raw emotions let loose by Michael's apparent 'brain damage' after his accident look set to destroy that marriage just as Bibi starts to have some empathy for Michael. The driving force of the book, however, and the element that kept me reading till it was way past my bedtime, is the question of whether Michael and Rodrigo will manage to find a way to return to their original lives, to switch back: the odds don't look good, but if anyone can make it happen, it will be Bibi. She is the heart of the book, and a great character: she is feisty, independent and determined but also hides a knot of grief and hurt deep down. The way that Rodrigo, the dolphin-turned-boy, sees this, and gets her finally talking about it, is really moving. I won't give away the end - but it's a gripping read, which is as much fun for adults as children, and I thoroughly recommend it.

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If You like Freaky Friday or Nim's Island you'll love this book

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 12 maggio 2013

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The start of this story is a little slow, then again as soon as you begin reading you may as well be watching a movie. I honestly believe this story could be as big as A Dolphin Tale or Nim's Island.
Anyway, it's the perfect start. Girl and her younger step brother go out on a boat with an older guy that's friends (and yes JUST friends) with the girl. before they hit open sea they spot a bottlenose dolphin, which is odd considering wild dolphins don't generally go near the shore. Bibi (the Girl) and Michael (the younger brother), dive into the water and see if they can touch the dolphin. The dolphin takes off and they chase it a bit. Bibi stops and calls for Michael to stop but he ends up in a riptide, with the help of the reappearing dolphin, Bibi gets Michael back to Hal's (the older friend's) boat. One thing the reader must always keep in mind. They're in Bermuda so you know it's about to get interesting in strange ways.
Think of this book like Freaky Firday only with Dolphins! Somehow the dolphin that helped save Michael switched bodies with Michael!
Okay from here on out there will be nothing more about the story, simply because I will not give away any spoilers. The things I commented on aren't spoilers they're in the blurb and synopsis which is what caught my interest to this book back in February when I got it, which was WAY before this review is taking place.
The way this story is written it would make an awesome movie as I stated before, if the write company and screen writers were found to tranform it to screen. This is a wonder story that people of all ages will enjoy especially if they like movies like Nim's Island.
The Bottle Storm will make you laugh as well as cry. Even if it's for younger readers, everyone will love this amazing story. Nick.. Find someone to make this a movie.. You'll be rich.
This story has a strong holding to taking care of the earth, the ocean in particular. Every year hundreds of dolphins, whales, and other marine mammals are killed due to fishing nets, harpooning, and the trash we humans leave everywhere. This story takes a slight turn. What if some of the really bad storms we thought were just mother nature or god...weren't? What if the next life taking, city destroying storm we have is really just a dolphin calling for the Dance of the Voices?
I give this book 5 of 5

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