Sea Change: A Novel by James PowlikMy rating: 7.5 of 10 stars
Pages : 478
Year : 1999
Genre : Thriller
Series : Solo
The story is set near canada\usa border near Seattle. Something is killing animals and people. Nobody knows what it is, some kind of weird water phenomenon. Enter our main protagonist and ex military and now turn environmentalist, divorcee and now roaming the waters with his crew. Meanwhile his ex-wife who knows of his knowledge contacts him and with the help of money from her now-husband they track down the culprit.
It's not that easy, you've got other characters like a medic who treated two people who died plus a bunch of others side characters that are there to help our main protagonist.
I learn a lot reading this novel, from pfiesteria to plankton to other stuff related to the sea. I think since James is a marine biologist he knows his stuff and tried to set the story within people who are not versed in marine biology but at times it enter the realm of science which was interesting since it made me search for stuff.
There are some interesting parts, this thing than can kill humans (and it seems it exists) but taken to extreme, the author at times it seems it gave it a personality/intelligence that I don't know they should have.
Either way, the vast majority of the book is the characters talking about possibilites, about plan of actions and at times we see the destructive power of this being. IT was interesting. As I said, it's slow and I can understand people don't like the novel, or why it has a minus that 4 rating. There is another novel very similar to this one called the Swarm written 3 or 4 years later. It was based on this one so you get to see similarities - the main issue for me is that it's a 900 page novel.
Either way, this is a good novel BUT be prepared for slow burn.
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