Story Rating 6.4 out of a possible 10.0

Book review by: P., Zoey-7 age: 12 Review submitted on 09/18/2007 at 15:15:34 list all 58 reviews for this book

Illustrations Rating 0.0 out of a possible 10.0

P., Zoey-7 writes the following about Hoot :

I thought the story in Hoot was pretty good, but in my opinion, Roy, Mullet Fingers, and Beatrice are all too good to seem quite real. I was just thinking during this whole story, "Would real kids do all this to save the baby owls?" It just seems like sure, these kids are all great and fabulous and always do the right thing, but nobody in real life would half-tame snakes and alligators and do things like dump them in Port-A-Potties or set them on guard dogs in order to save baby owls. Perhaps everyone should do things like this in defense of the environment, but nobody does! It seems a little cheesy and unreal. I like to know that people are normal enough to have at least a speck of evil in them. Everything Roy and Beatrice and Mullet Fingers did that was genuinely bad, was for the greater good. It seems that they could do no wrong, and everyone does something bad just because it's bad once in their life, but even when Roy trapped Dana, it was to throw the police off so Mullet Fingers could continue to save the owls. I just think that maybe Mr. Hiassen could of made at least one main character do something at least slightly bad just for the heck of it to convince me that these kids were human. By the way, there are virtually no illustrations in this book exept for the stupid little "owl" face on the cover and cover page. First of all, it doesn't even LOOK like an owl, and is so ridiculously simple it looks like a pre-schooler designed it.

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