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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 6–10—In this futuristic follow-up to Dark Life (Scholastic, 2010), 15-year-old Ty Townson and his friend Gemma, a homeless orphan who used to live in an above-water trade station, discover a submerged township filled with bodies in a trash vortex. Later, when Ty's parents go missing, the duo sets out to find them, fearing they'll meet a similar fate. The first child born of settlers in a postapocalyptic, land-scarce world, Ty possesses a dark gift enabling him to "shine" and generate biosonar pul...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
A friendly deal between the subsea settlers and township "surfs," brokered in <i>Dark Life</i>, turns ugly when Ty's settler parents ar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on September 1, 2011
Mysteries drive the plot like jet propulsion. Action never stops as Ty encounters hired guns, flesh-eating eels, and twenty-foot-long crocodiles. Kat Falls continues the world-building that made Dark Life so compelling. Small details, such as children eating whale-milk ice cream at boxing matches wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
