Reviews

Dolphins: Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey

apbookout's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

chloekg's review against another edition

4.0

Breezy and enjoyable read, it is apparent that the author had a great time in writing this, despite the many emotional hardships that come with giving voice to this gregarious mammal. From bizarre tales of New Age Hawaiians and sordid Navy research, to the modern day crises of politics and capitalism, Casey provides a surprising breadth of content around this deeply relatable theme.

amberderuyt's review against another edition

5.0

A FASCINATING read, I knew close to nothing about dolphins in or out of captivity before I started this book and I now am desperate to call myself an expert. Brilliantly written and structured too

lordsunkist's review against another edition

adventurous informative lighthearted slow-paced

3.0

bethany_demott's review against another edition

5.0

I loved reading this book. I usually don’t read non-fiction, but Susan Casey is an excellent storyteller. There’s so much to learn about dolphins themselves, beliefs around them (some of them are shocking), and the horrors of how they’re brought into captivity.

I found myself talking about this book all the time. So fascinating.

ryanjjames's review against another edition

2.0

This was a dark look at our troubled relationship with dolphins and told from a generalist/emotional perspective. Casey is a writer and not a scientist. Much of the book involved the author travelling to places were dolphins are captured, slaughtered or the marine parks where they are held. Dolphins have advanced intelligence and she talks about lawyers arguing to extend habius corpus status so that humans stop trapping these sentient beings for entertainment purposes. The author also looked at the high degree of pollution that man has put into the ocean. It’s all factual, but the story was told without much in the way of a silver lining. I picked up this book wanting to learn more about how dolphins communicate. Instead I found myself hate-reading this book in the hopes that it would offer some positive message at some point. Unfortunately, it didn’t. It was a depressing look at all that is bad in our relationship with the planet (in general) and dolphins (in particular).

Thanks,
Brian

barbarianlibarian's review against another edition

4.0

informative, interesting, but fun read. the audio reader was great. I did speed it up a little because the over detail at some points just needed to go faster, but I'd recommend it. my sailor/surfer man listened to it also and liked it.

tallulahk's review against another edition

3.0

very very very mid

eliclarevt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

ebrooks's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death