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maebinnig's review
2.0
Ariel is Not Like the Other Girls. She has music in her soul, she reads grown-up books, and no one compliments her on her looks like they do her obnoxious older sister and mother. The only person who really seems to get her is her brother George, who's currently deployed in Afghanistan. Improbably, she happens to run into a traumatized ex-military dog and an unrelated traumatized ex-military sergeant, both of whom become her fast friends and give her a chance to shine by...stealthily entering the town parade with a float of dancing dogs?
I can already hear people saying I'm being too hard on Storm Dog. It's a kids' book! Kids won't care! But I was a kid, and I cared. Heck, Ariel rattles off entire lists of books written for young people that are among the finest literature of all time (and also Divergent). So I expected more. Storm Dog tries too hard and falls flat. Everything is too on-the-nose, too forced, weirdly political, and one-dimensional.
(I received this book for free through a Goodreads giveaway.)
I can already hear people saying I'm being too hard on Storm Dog. It's a kids' book! Kids won't care! But I was a kid, and I cared. Heck, Ariel rattles off entire lists of books written for young people that are among the finest literature of all time (and also Divergent). So I expected more. Storm Dog tries too hard and falls flat. Everything is too on-the-nose, too forced, weirdly political, and one-dimensional.
(I received this book for free through a Goodreads giveaway.)
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