Storm is a fairly stereotypical, way-too-smart-to-be-believable character, even to the point of being overweight and socially awkward.
He’s uncomplicated and smarter than he seems. Tommy was probably my favorite of the Kidds. What most of my notes boil down to are things I didn’t like about the way characters are presented or written. Now and then, he seemed to put the emphasis in the wrong place, but overall, I liked the narrator. The narrator did a good job of sounding like a 12-year-old boy most of the time, but sounding like older characters when needed, too. For example, there was a gang of pirates that were basically surfer dudes, and the way they were voiced by the narrator gave that part of the story a major 3 Ninjas vibe, which I quite enjoyed. Not all of these notes were of issues I had with the story. However, I wrote more notes while listening, of things I wanted to remember for later, than I have for any book I’ve ever read. I had to borrow the ebook to be able to see the illustrations, and I liked them, even one part when they were drawn by a different character. Bick is the narrator of the book, and Beck draws the illustrations along the way. The main cast consists of 4 kids: the oldest is Tommy, then Storm, and twins Bick and Beck (short for Bickford and Rebecca). The overall story was fun and adventurous and ends with a promise of more of the same. Then some clues surface that point at evidence to what really happened to their parents, and the adventure really begins. But after the separate but equally mysterious disappearances of both of their parents, the Kidd children are left on their own to deal with a band of pirates who want their treasure and local authorities who don’t want them to be left on their own. They live on a boat, traveling the world, recovering various kinds of items from shipwrecks. Tommy (the beefcake), Storm (the brains), Bick (thinks he's the brains but is really the storyteller), and Beck (thinks she's the brains but is really the artist) have helped their parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean, and they wouldn't trade their life on the high seas for anything.īut after their mother is kidnapped and their father disappears in an enormous storm, the kids are suddenly thrust into the most exciting treasure hunt of their lives.They'll have to work together to defeat dangerous pirates, keep their untrustworthy uncle at bay, and dodge the hot pursuit of an evil treasure hunting rival, all while following cryptic clues to unravel the mystery of what really happened to their parents-and find out if they're still alive.The Kidds are a family of treasure hunters. The Kidds have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and traveling the world as part of their family treasure-hunting business.
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