Not only are their kick-ass dolphins, but we also meet a kick-ass monkey named Dulce too.ĭulce and her “mom” DeAnn, are asked by this rich guy, who runs a wild-life refuge to investigate a murder, and try to recapture a monkey that was missing. I would say out of the three books left in the series after the first one, the second was probably my favorite.

I don’t really know how to sum up this story without really giving anything away.

The second, third, and fourth book take off from where the first book ended, but also introduced some new characters.įirst of all, the dolphins, Dirk and Sally are awesome, and they just continue to be more awesome in the rest of the books: Grumley also left the ending of four pretty open-ended, if he ever wanted to make a book 5 of the series, and I sort of hope he does. The four plots of the four different books definitely go together, but each book is a different story, and I didn’t feel like I was reading the same story over again. One of the things I did like about this series was that each book is definitely an individual book. This phone call ended with my dad telling me that he was going to make me a list of science fiction books that he thought I might like and him being excited that I might be reading more scifi, since it is his favorite type of book.Īnyhow, overall this series got a 3.5 from me, which is pretty damn good, considering the most stars I would ever give something was five. I also like some science fiction comedy such as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, for example, and then sometimes I like books about aliens and other planets such as Titan by Stephen Baxter, which I read back in like 2011. This led to a discussion of the science fiction book genres that I do like, I tend to like science fiction book based on current and relevant science, I would say that I like science that has a basis in micro or regular biology, especially if it deals with things like genetics, which is probably why I do enjoy books by Michael Crichton. After he had read the first book, I called him to ask his opinion of it and he told me he enjoyed it, but was really surprised that I liked it because it was straight science fiction, and I’m not a science fiction fangirl.

My dad was really excited that I ended up liking this series and recommended it to him. To calculate the rating for the series, I’ll rate the three books individually and then compute the average of the three. I already covered book one in this review. This review will cover the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th books of the Breakthrough Series by Michael C.

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