How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm
How to Train Your Dragon #7
by Cressida Cowell
read by David Tennant

My rating: 4 / 5
Genre: Middle grade fantasy

Because these Vikings can never do anything normally, an inter-tribe swimming race means that the winner is actually the one who makes it back last, because that means that person could stay in the water longest. Actually, the contest of endurance isn’t that strange, but calling it a race is. Anyway, Hiccup, Fishlegs, and Camicazi end up abducted by someone Hiccup ticked off in a previous book and that leads to them battling Polarserpents and attempting to discover America (which no one believes exists).

I definitely liked this book more than the previous. (Though Big-Boobied Bertha and her unusually large chest makes an appearance again, it’s not nearly as involved as last time.) Hiccup and Fishlegs still take a lot of flak from their tribe, but then they are able to get away from them for a while. And Fishlegs had some nice development in this story. Though that has made me realize how little development Hiccup gets in these books. He’s been good and smart and level-headed from the start, and I’m not sure he has anywhere to go from there.

Some aspects from previous books are brought back here and there are a few elements that are possibly left open for future stories, all of which made the story more intriguing. The narration continues to be great, though it feels a little like David Tennant was running out of new voices for some of the different side characters or creatures by this point, since some of the voices are seeming a bit more ridiculous. Overall, though, this book was another fun addition to the series.

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