Review:
Roz is back on her beloved island, and life seems good until an injured seal washes ashore and warns everyone of something called the "poison tide." When the poison tide reaches the island, everyone realizes how horrible it truly is. Roz does her best to save any animals in immediate danger and comes up with a plan to provide everyone with fresh water, but those are only temporary solutions. When Roz discovers that she's immune to the poison tide, she decides to go on a journey to find the Ancient Shark, who many say is the only one who knows how to defeat the poison tide.
The second book in this series ended satisfyingly enough that things could have ended there - indeed, the author's note at the end of this book says that Brown hadn't originally intended to write more. Still, I love Roz and was happy to spend more time with her.
As usual, I enjoyed Brown's obvious appreciation for nature. During her journey to the Ancient Shark, Roz encountered environments and animals completely different from anything she'd ever seen on the island.
Readers will probably be able to guess at the source of the poison tide long before Roz finally encounters it. Roz's new body (acquired in the previous book) gives her new abilities, and in this book she's faced with some choices she never expected as she tries to stop the poison tide.
In the author's note, Brown wrote that he wanted to present a situation in which there were "no easy solutions and no clear villains" (276). While he sort of accomplished that, I did feel that things went much more smoothly and easily in the end than was really believable. That said, I'm willing to accept that things are a little easier and better in Roz's world, even if I wouldn't trust a real-world corporation to do even half of what was done to reverse damage caused by the poison tide.
All in all, it was nice to see more of Roz and her steadily growing little family.
Extras:
Black-and-white illustrations throughout, and an author's note.
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