Book Review: Changing Tide

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Sep 4

Changing Tide

by Robert Joncas

Genre: Young Adult / Sci-Fi & Fantasy

ISBN: 9798987150108

Print Length: 260 pages

Reviewed by Nick Rees Gardner

For Skye, life is a series of rude awakenings. Ripped from her comfortable life in Arizona, she is faced with multiple deaths, a drug-addled mother, and a boyfriend who may or may not be cheating on her.

Robert Joncas's Changing Tide begins as a realistic coming of age novel featuring a young woman faced with endless traumas, but it becomes much more. Joncas brings in sci-fi and fantasy elements of magic seashells and aliens to create a call to adventure. The result is a book about Skye Connor, a young woman, who, against all odds, overcomes loss and trauma to save the world.

When Skye is ripped from her comfortable life in Arizona in the wake of her father's tragic death, she doesn't believe in the supernatural or aliens. Thus she remains skeptical when, on a walk along the beach outside her Nana's house in Crescent Cove, California, she finds a giant conch shell that seems to be able to speak to her. Little does she know that contained in the shell is the soul of an ancient alien, one with whom she has a special bond.

After her mother overdoses, Skye is riddled with guilt and falls into the arms of Paul, a somewhat untrustworthy character whom she believes harbors a secret. In a series of surprising events, however, Paul, Skye, and Nana find themselves on a mission that leads them to the Grand Canyon where they must face a group of evil overlords and save the world from destruction.