A review by abigailbat
The Octopus Scientists by Sy Montgomery

3.0

While I would definitely hand this to young readers interested in science who are curious about what field research is like, I guess I expected more... octopuses? I get that field expeditions go how they go and this is a great portrait of the experience, but it seemed like half the book was about the scientists looking for octopuses and not finding them. I did enjoy reading about the octopuses they did find and I learned a lot, but I wanted more of that. The underwater photos are quite good, although some photos are not labeled and occasionally I wanted for a photo that was not there (example: the Picasso triggerfish, whose beauty is described but no photo is included).

Sy Montgomery has written some of my favorite books in the Scientists in the Field series and I had high hopes for this one, but it just didn't measure up.