Thankfully, unlike Lulu and Pita's books, there are no terrible parents in this one! Piper's mom's only fault is that she might want her daughter to be more girly than sporty.
Piper is a junior lifesaver, which is apparently a big thing in her part of Australia. She's into rescuing people or trying to, surfing, and saving the world environmentally.
I run into any character like this and she's automatically compared to Dawn from Babysitters Club. Is she early series Dawn or later Dawn?
A good thing for Piper and for me is that she's really not all that obnoxious about her Earth-saving side. Her best friend seems to be like turbo Dawn though. I didn't care for her or her obsessive need to tell Piper what happened to her first and never let Piper share her story first.
This book is a nice blend of mystery and stuff about Australia. I loved that they traveled to the Great Barrier Reef for a couple days to show off even more of the country, even though that's not where Piper lives.
Piper is a likeable character, even though I have absolutely nothing in common with her whatsoever.
Although I do subtract points for her wearing stupid uggs all the time! I hate those hideous lumpy things.
Granted, they were more in style when this was written, so it made sense for her, but still. Hideous.
Like Lulu, my doll is not wearing her stock outfit, which is the outfit on the book cover. I don't care for sporty stuff much, so she kept her swimsuit, but took the other pieces from a different Karito fashion pack.
Piper's doll looks older than the other girls in the line, although not too much older than Gia and Lulu, which suits her because I think she's a bit more mature than most of them. Maybe all of them. She's impulsive, reckless and single-minded, but that seems to go with the territory in this series, and her book isn't super unrealistic like others were.
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